For what reason did the French Academy of Science create the metric system?

Answer 1

== == the main attempt was to create a system that can be used internationally as a standard for weight, distance, volume and temperature. this would unite the scientific community and the commercial endeavours

Answer 2

In 1790, the National Assembly of France asked the French Academy of Sciences to create a standard system of weights and measures, thus the metric system was created. By 1960, it had developed into the modern SI system. Developers wanted new standards because having different, incompatible systems made scientific and commercial information difficult to use and exchange. During the 20th Century, many of the metric measurements were adopted worldwide, although countries such as the US still use English units in non-scientific applications.
The Metric System The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement. The system has different choices of base units but the choice does not affect its day to day use. Over the last couple of centuries, different systems have been considered "the metric system". Since 1960, the International System of Units, or Systeme International d'Unites (SI), has been internationally accepted as the standard metric system. The first civilization to record measurements is thought to be Egypt. Egypt was less advanced so instead of rulers and yardsticks they used sundials and levels. Later, in Rome, the terms foot, inch, and yard were refined. The length of the foot was based on the size of the foot of the emperor. As late as the 19th Century, the English and other systems had not been standardized. The metric system both standardized measurements and made them easily convertible to larger and smaller units.

Answer 3

1. An agreed system of measures in an essential for trading- withing a country as well as between countries. So internationally agreed standard measures are necessary. Not like a gallon which can mean one amount in the US and different amount in the UK.

2. Orders of magnitude for measuring the same attribute are related by simple multiples or fractions of powers of ten conversions and only a handful of prefices are required (although there are a lot more available for very big and very small amounts). This makes conversion from smaller to larger units simple. By way of contrast, the Imperial system uses:

• 2 pints in a quart

• 3 feet in a yard

• 4 quarts in a gallon

• 6 feet in a fathom

• 8 furlongs in a mile

• 9 square feet in a square yard

• 12 inches in a foot

• 14 pounds in a stone

• 16 ounces in a pound

and so on, and on and on. The decimal structure also makes it simple to use scientific notation for very small and very large quantities.

3. It is used by most people in the world. The main recalcitrant countries are USA, Liberia and Myanmar. Even in the US, scientists normally use SI. When they don't they have disasters like the one that trashed NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter!

4. There are many simple relations between measures for one characteristic to another. For example, the force required to accelerate a mass of 1 kilogram by 1 metre/second^2 is 1 Newton. The pressure exerted by 1 Newton over an area of 1 Square metre is 1 Pascal.

Answer 4

to standardize all units of measure.