Eotvos Unit (E)
Eotvos Unit (E) :
A unit used in geophysics to measure the change in the acceleration of gravity with horizontal distance. One Eotvos unit equals 10-9 Gal per centimeter or 10-4 Gal per kilometer. In proper SI terms, the Eotvos unit equals 10-9 per second squared (s-2). The unit honors the Hungarian physicist Roland von Eötvös (1848-1919)
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