Characteristic

gauss

Notes

Symbol

Gs

Other Name

G

Metric (SI) Equivalent

100 microteslas

This equivalent and the others below are exact.

Other Metric (SI) Equivalents with More Basic Units

100 microwebers / meter2

1×10-4 kilograms / ampere second2

Metric (SI) Dimensions

mass × time-2 × electric-current-1

These are the dimensions of the "magnetic flux density" quantity in SI units. There are other unit systems used in electromagnetics that may assign different dimensions.

Quantity

Magnetic Flux Density and Magnetic Induction