Elementary Charge Fundamental Physical Constant

ElementaryCharge is a natural constant and implemented as a UniqueConstant. Its value [Cohen/Cvitas/etal_2007] (p.111) is an experimental value. The numerical value is $1.602176487\time 10^{-19}$ C. As such, it is a ElectricCharge.

The constant should be used as a macro ELEMENTARYCHARGE:

ElectricCharge Q;
Q = ELEMENTARYCHARGE;       // assigns the value of the elementary charge to variable Q

ElementaryCharge is a Loki::Singleton, defined in namespace elementaryCharge. The ElementaryCharge is a derived quantity with electricCharge::Quantity as the base quantity, and does incorporate all features of an electric charge.

References

[Cohen/Cvitas/etal_2007] E.R. Cohen, T. Cvitas, J.G. Frey, B. Holmström, K. Kuchitsu, R. Marquardt, I. Mills, F. Pavese, M. Quack, J. Stohner, H.L. Strauss, M. Takami, and A.J. Thor, Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 3rd ed., Blackwell Science, Oxford, 2007.

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