Physical & Astronomical Constants
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Here is a list of useful constants:
Length:
- 1 inch = 2.54 cm
- 1 mile = 1.6 km
- 1 km = 1000 m
- 1 m = 100 cm = 1000 mm = 109 nm
- Planck Legnth = 1.616252¡Á10-35 m
= sqrt (hbar G/c3)
- Classical Electron Radius = 2.81794¡Á10-15 m
= e2/ me c2
- Proton Radius = 0.83¡Á10-15 m
= 0.83 femtometer = 0.83¡Á10-13 cm
- 1 Angstrom = 10-10 m
= 10-8 cm
- 1 Earth Radius = 6.37814¡Á108 cm
= 6.37814¡Á106 m
(Equatorial)
- 1 Jupiter Radius = 7.1492¡Á109 cm
= 7.1492¡Á107 m
(Equatorial)
- 1 Solar Radius = 6.9599¡Á1010 cm
= 6.9599¡Á108 m
(Equatorial)
- 1 Moon's Mean Orbital Radius = 384,400 km = 3.8440¡Á108 m
- 1 AU = 1.4960¡Á1011 m
= 1.4960¡Á108 km
(Astronomical Unit)
- 1 AU = 149,597,870,700 m (According to the 2015
International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu)
- 1 ly = 9.4605¡Á1015 m
= 9.4605¡Á1012 km
(light year)
- 1 pc = 3.0857¡Á1016 m
= 3.0857¡Á1013 km =
3.261633 ly = 206264.806 AU (parsec) = 3.0857¡Á1018 cm
- 1 Mpc = 106 pc (Megaparsec)
= 3.0857¡Á1024 cm
- DH = c/H0 = 3000 h-1 Mpc
= 9.26¡Á1027 h-1 cm
(The Hubble Scale)
Angles:
- 1¡ã =
1 degree = 60' = 60 arcminutes
- 1' = 60" = 60 arcseconds
- 1 radian = 360¡ã /2
pi = 57.2957795131¡ã =
206264.806"
- Area of a Sphere = 41252.96124 square degrees = 4 pi Steradians
Mass:
- 1 amu = 1.6605402¡Á10-24 gram
= 1.6605402¡Á10-27 kg
- 1 amu c2 =
931.49432 MeV
- 1 Hydrogen Atom Mass = 1.007825 amu = 1.673534¡Á10-24 gram
- 1 Helium 4 Atom Mass = 4.00260325415 amu
- 1 Carbon 12 Atom Mass = 12.0000000 amu
- 1 Proton Mass = 1.6726231¡Á10-24 gram
- 1 Neutron Mass = 1.674920¡Á10-24 gram
- 1 Electron Mass = 9.1093897¡Á10-28 gram
- 1 kg = 2.20462 lb
- 1 Solar Mass = 1.989¡Á1033 gram
= 1.989¡Á1030 kg
- 1 Jupiter Mass = 1.899¡Á1030 gram
= 1.899¡Á1027 kg
- 1 Earth Mass = 5.9736¡Á1027 gram
= 5.9736¡Á1024 kg
- 1 Lunar Mass = 7.3477¡Á1025 gram
= 7.3477¡Á1022 kg
- (Proton Mass)/(Electron Mass) = 1836.15
- Earth's Mean Density = 5515.3 kg/m3
- Moon's Mean Density = 3346.4 kg/m3
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Time:
- 1 Planck Time = 5.39124¡Á10-44 s
= sqrt (hbar G/c5)
- 1 Sidereal Day = 23h 56m 04.09054s
- 1 Solar Day = 24h =
86400 s
- 1 Sidereal Year = 3.155815¡Á107 s
- 1 Tropical Year = 3.155693¡Á107 s
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Energy:
- 1 Joule = 2.39x10-1 calorie
- 1 Joule = 107 ergs
- 1 eV = 1.602177¡Á10-12 erg
= 1.602177¡Á10-19 Joule
- 1 Solar Luminosity = 3.826¡Á1033 ergs/s
= 3.826¡Á1026 Joules/s
= 3.826¡Á1026 Watts
- 1 Solar Luminosity = 3.828¡Á1033 ergs/s
= 3.828¡Á1026 Joules/s
= 3.828¡Á1026 Watts
(According to the 2015 International Astronomical Union General Assembly in
Honolulu)
- Sun's Absolute Magnitude V = 4.83, B = 5.48, K = 3.28
- Vega's Absolute Magnitude V = 0.58, B = 0.58, K = 0.58
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Temperature:
- Solar Surface Effective Temperature = 5770 K
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Physical Constants:
- Avogadro's Number = NA =
6.0221367¡Á1023 /mole
- Gravitational Constant = G = 6.67259¡Á10-8 cm3 gram-1 s-2 =
4.301¡Á10-9 km2 Mpc
MSun-1 s-2
- Planck's Constant = h = 6.6260755¡Á10-27 erg
s
- Speed of Light = c = 2.99792458¡Á1010 cm
s-1 = 2.99792458¡Á108 m
s-1
- Boltzmann's Constant = k = 1.380658¡Á10-16 erg
K-1
- Stefan-Boltzmann Constant = &sigma = 5.67051¡Á10-5 erg
cm-2 K-4 s-1
- Radiation Density Constant = a = 7.56591¡Á10-15 erg
cm-3 K-4
- Rydberg = RH =
1.09677585¡Á10 5 cm-1
- Electron charge = e = 4.8032¡Á10-10 esu
= 1.6022¡Á10-19 Coulomb
- 1 Coulomb = 6.24151¡Á1018 e
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Link:
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~dfabricant/huchra/ay145/constants.html