Statvolt
type: Unit
description: "statvolt" is a unit of voltage and electrical potential used in the cgs system of units. The conversion to the SI system is $1 statvolt = 299.792458 volts$. The conversion factor 299.792458 is simply the numerical value of the speed of light in m/s divided by 106. The statvolt is also defined in the cgs system as $1 erg / esu$. It is a useful unit for electromagnetism because one statvolt per centimetre is equal in magnitude to one gauss. Thus, for example, an electric field of one statvolt/cm has the same energy density as a magnetic field of one gauss. Likewise, a plane wave propagating in a vacuum has perpendicular electric and magnetic fields such that for every gauss of magnetic field intensity there is one statvolt/cm of electric field intensity. The abvolt is another option for a unit of voltage in the cgs system.
applicable system: CGS
applicable system: CGS-ESU
conversion multiplier: 299.792458
conversion multiplier SN: 2.99792458E2
dbpedia match: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Statvolt
derived unit of system: CGS-ESU
has dimension vector: A0E-1L2I0M1H0T-3D0
has quantity kind: ElectricPotential
has quantity kind: ElectricPotentialDifference
has quantity kind: EnergyPerElectricCharge
has quantity kind: Voltage
informative reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statvolt
om unit: statvolt
scaling of: http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/V
symbol: statV
unit for quantity kind: ElectricPotential
unit for quantity kind: ElectricPotentialDifference
unit for quantity kind: EnergyPerElectricCharge
unit for quantity kind: Voltage
wikidata match: Q2066484