Axis

Viscosity

poiseP

The CGS unit of dynamic viscosity: 1 g/(cm·s).

Dimension
M/L·T
Canonical signature
L^-1*M*T^-1
System
metric historical
Exactness
Exact

Definition record

How this unit is defined

Canonical base
1 P = 0.1 Pa·s
Conversion type
linear
Aliases
poises

Same dimension

Related units

pascal-secondsiPa·scentipoisemetric historicalcPpound per foot-secondimperial uslb/(ft·s)reynimperial usreyn

Common conversions

Every conversion routes through the canonical base of the dimension.

1 P = 0.1 Pa·s

Exact relationship

10 P = 1 Pa·s

Exact relationship