Fundamental Physical Constants 1986 Adjustments

The 1986 adjustment of the fundamental physical constants

National Sureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 One of the early projects established by CODATA was intended to provide a recommended set of the fundamental physical constants, which are so important to the analysis and interpretation of experimental data in many scientific disciplines, The first "Recommended Consistent Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants" appeared in 1973 a...

The 1986 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants

This paper gives the values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry resulting from the 1986 least-squares adjustment of the fundamental physical constants as recently published by the CODATA Task Group on Fundamental Constants and as recommended for international use by CODATA. The new, 1986 CODATA set of recommended values replaces its predecessor published by th...

The Fundamental Physical Constants

established in 1966 as an interdisciplinary committee of the International Council of Scientific Unions (now the International Council of Science). Three years later, CODATA created the task group on fundamental constants to periodically provide the scientific and technological communities with a self-consistent set of internationally recommended values for the basic constants and conversion fa...

Cosmological Variability of Fundamental Physical Constants

Fundamental Physical Constants: Looking from Different Angles

We consider fundamental physical constants which are among a few of the most important pieces of information we have learned about Nature after its intensive centurieslong studies. We discuss their multifunctional role in modern physics including problems related to the art of measurement, natural and practical units, origin of the constants, their possible calculability and variability etc. PA...