Volume Quantity and Units

Volume is a derived quantity. Definitions are provided in namespace volume. The base quantity defines a derived quantity type CubicMetreClass, and a Variable Volume, a Constant VolumeConstant, and a VariableVector VolumeVector.

The Dimension of Volume is $(3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)$ .

Volume defines the following Units:

CubicMetre (prefixable)
Litre
Lambda
Barrel
USGallon
UKGallon

The default unit is CubicMetre (m^3). The default name in the base quantity is `volume', and the default symbol is `V'. The derived quantity does not overwrite these values.

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