Luminous Intensity Quantity and Units

LuminousIntensity is a SI base quantity. Definitions are provided in namespace luminousIntensit. The base quantity defines derived quantity types CandelaClass, and Variable LuminousIntensity, Constant LuminousIntensityConstant, and VariableVector LuminousIntensityVector.

The Dimension of LuminousIntensity is $(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)$ .

LuminousIntensity defines the following Units:

Candela (prefixable)

The default unit is Candela (cd). The default name in the base quantity is `luminous intensity', and the default symbol is `I'. The derived quantity does not overwrite these values.

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