FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL CONSTANTS IN INTERNET
Gleb Belov
Chemistry department,
119992
Nowadays for many people the internet is a main source
of the reference data. Information on fundamental physical constants is sought
for by many students, scientists and engineers. The practice shows that one of
the most popular search systems Google place in the first place in such cases
another very popular resource Wikipedia as the source
of information. Wikipedia has many variants for
various languages and one can easily find that the values of many physical
constants in it depend on the language. So in a small investigation dated by
March, 20 this year if was found that molar gas constant can have the following
values: 8.314, 8.3145, 8.31441, 8.314472 J/(mol·K),
Avogadro constant: 6.02×1023, 6.022136736×1023
, 6.02214179×1023 1/mol, Planck constant: 6.626×10−34,
6.62607×10−34, 6.62606896×10−34 J·s, Newtonian constant of gravitation: 6.67×10−11,
6.6742×10−11, 6.67259×10−11,
6.67428×10−11, m3/(kg·s2), etc. In our opinion there are too few
reliable sources of the information on fundamental sources of the information
in the internet (or they are thoroughly hidden) and most of them have only English
version (e.g. physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/). So
many people who do not know English are obliged to
read Wikipedia. We propose to create a multilingual
site on fundamental physical constants. It is not neither difficult nor
expensive but will be helpful for many interested people all around the world.
The study was supported by RFBR grants ¹ 08-03-00506-a
and 08-03-00221-a.