cgs: centimeter per second2
mks: meter per second2
the mks unit is kg/m cube and the cgs unit is g/cm cube
(MKS)or(SI)- joule CGS- erg
MKS unit of power is "Watt 'W' (1W=1J/s)" CGS unit of power is "egr(cgs unit of work)per second"
The cgs unit of acceleration is centimeter per second squared (cm/s^2).
cgs . . .dyne-centimeter/second, equivalent to erg/secondmks . . .watt, equivalent tojoule/secondnewton-meter/secondkilogram-meter2/second3
The units for acceleration in the MKS (meter-kilogram-second) system are meters per second squared (m/s^2). In the CGS (centimeter-gram-second) system, the units for acceleration are centimeters per second squared (cm/s^2).
The MKS unit for acceleration is meters per second squared (m/s^2).
The centimetre-gram-second system (CGS) is a system of physical units. It is always the same for mechanical units, but there are several variants of electric additions. It was replaced by the MKS, or metre-kilogram-second system, which in turn was replaced by the International System of Units (SI), which has the three base units of MKS plus the ampere, mole, candela and kelvin. from Arun
meter/second2.
The MKS (meter-kilogram-second) unit of momentum is kilogram meter per second (kg m/s), while the CGS (centimeter-gram-second) unit of momentum is gram centimeter per second (g cm/s).
The relevant SI bases are MKS.Length: cgs system uses centimetre, MKS uses metre = 100 centimetres. Mass: cgs system uses grams, MKS uses kilogram = 1000 grams. Time: they both use seconds.
CGS is NOT common nowadays. MKS is common because the SI, the international system of units, is based on it.