Turn (angle)

Unit symbols

There are several unit symbols for the turn.

EU and Switzerland

The German standard DIN 1315 (March 1974) proposed the unit symbol "pla" (from Latin: plenus angulus 'full angle') for turns. Covered in (October 2010), the so-called Vollwinkel ('full angle') is not an SI unit. However, it is a legal unit of measurement in the EU and Switzerland.

Calculators

The scientific calculators HP 39gII and HP Prime support the unit symbol "tr" for turns since 2011 and 2013, respectively. Support for "tr" was also added to newRPL for the HP 50g in 2016, and for the hp 39g+, HP 49g+, HP 39gs, and HP 40gs in 2017. An angular mode TURN was suggested for the WP 43S as well, but the calculator instead implements "MUL" (*multiples of *) as mode and unit since 2019.

Divisions

Many angle units are defined as a division of the turn. For example, the degree is defined such that one turn is 360 degrees.

Using metric prefixes, the turn can be divided in 100 centiturns or milliturns, with each milliturn corresponding to an angle of 0.36°, which can also be written as 21′ 36″. A protractor divided in centiturns is normally called a "percentage protractor". While percentage protractors have existed since 1922, the terms centiturns, milliturns and microturns were introduced much later by the British astronomer Fred Hoyle in 1962. Some measurement devices for artillery and satellite watching carry milliturn scales.

Binary fractions of a turn are also used. Sailors have traditionally divided a turn into 32 compass points, which implicitly have an angular separation of turn. The binary degree, also known as the binary radian (or brad), is turn. The binary degree is used in computing so that an angle can be represented to the maximum possible precision in a single byte. Other measures of angle used in computing may be based on dividing one whole turn into 2n equal parts for other values of n.

Unit conversion

One turn is equal to 2\pi = \tau ≈ radians, 360 degrees, or 400 gradians.

In the ISQ/SI

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In the International System of Quantities (ISQ), rotation (symbol N) is a physical quantity defined as number of revolutions:

The above definition is part of the ISQ, formalized in the international standard ISO 80000-3 (Space and time), and adopted in the International System of Units (SI).

Rotation count or number of revolutions is a quantity of dimension one, resulting from a ratio of angular displacement. It can be negative and also greater than 1 in modulus. The relationship between quantity rotation, N, and unit turns, tr, can be expressed as: : N = \frac \varphi \text{tr} = { \varphi }_\text{tr} where }tr is the numerical value of the angle in units of turns (see **).

In the ISQ/SI, rotation is used to derive rotational frequency (the rate of change of rotation with respect to time), denoted by n: : n = \frac{\mathrm{d}N}{\mathrm{d}t}

The SI unit of rotational frequency is the reciprocal second (s−1). Common related units of frequency are hertz (Hz), cycles per second (cps), and revolutions per minute (rpm).

Rotational unit The superseded version ISO 80000-3:2006 defined "revolution" as a special name for the dimensionless unit "one", which also received other special names, such as the radian. Despite their dimensional homogeneity, these two specially named dimensionless units are applicable for non-comparable kinds of quantity: rotation and angle, respectively. "Cycle" is also mentioned in ISO 80000-3, in the definition of period.

Notes

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