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You find a survey of the areas of PTB activities in the illustrated brochures the PTB offers on numerous subjects. The following brochures have so far been published.
A short summary of PTB
PTB The National Metrology Institute (5.34 Mb) PTB Info Sheet: PTB the National Metrology Institute of Germany
Info Sheet Division 1 Mechanics and Acoustics (640.58 kb) How heavy, how strong, how fast, how loud? Division 1 is your reference for the precision measurement of mechanic and acoustic quantities. In addition to basic research, the main task of this Division is to supply services, i. e. calibrations in the field of industrial metrology and type tests in the field of legal metrology.
Info Sheet Division 2 Electricity (788.72 kb) Electric measurements are of a multidisciplinary nature. In almost all industrial, technical and scientific fields, in medicine as well as in environmental and climate observation, non-electric measurands are transformed into electric quantities. This is the reason why electric measurements play a key role in metrology.
Info Sheet Division 4 Optics (672.23 kb) What time is it? How long is one metre? How is luminous intensity measured? But also: What is the colour, power or spatial distribution of a light-emitting diode? How strong is a laser, or how smooth is a mirror? How is optical quality measured and how are atoms counted? These and many other questions are dealt with by the Optics Division, because they can be answered very precisely with the aid of modern optical methods.
Info Sheet Division 5 Precision Engineering (614.96 kb) In many important technical branches of industry, length measuring techniques provide the basis for a stable and sustainable production. Here, the traceability of such measurements to the unit ?metre? is a precondition for globally distributed manufacturing, because it guarantees that everywhere on earth, the same measure is valid. Quality systems are based on this proof of an uninterrupted metrological chain which reaches up to the national standards at its top of the hierarchy.
Info Sheet Division 8 Medical Physics and Metrological Information Technology (741.31 kb) Medical physics and Metrological Information technology
Developing measuring methods and measuring procedures in medicine is one major task of Division 8. Furthermore, the other is information technology ? from mathematical modelling and software testing to the approval of gaming and voting machines.
Info Sheet Clean Room Center (702.71 kb) The Clean Room Center of PTB is used to fabricate micro- and nanoelectronic circuits for electrical quantum metrology, to advance microand nanometrology, to perform ultra-precise angle and coordinate measurements, and to push the limits of optical metrology.
Info Sheet: The PTB (805.73 kb) Accurately? Yes, accurately! But higher accuracy is always possible. The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) tries to achieve this. PTB is the National Metrology Institute of Germany with scientific and technical service tasks. It measures with the highest accuracy and reliability ? metrology as the core competence.
Unser SI-Paket: rund um die SI-Basiseinheiten
Das internationale Einheitensystem (SI) (1.43 Mb) Deutsche Übersetzung der SI-Broschüre des BIPM. 8. Aufl. (erschienen als Sonderdruck aus den PTB-Mitteilungen), 2007
The Legal Units in Germany (3.01 Mb)
Heft 01: Dimensionen der Einheiten (6.68 Mb) Die maßstäbe sind ein wissenschaftsjournalistisches Magazin der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt.
Das hier vorliegende Heft 1, "Dimensionen der Einheiten", ist im September 2001 erschienen. (Heft ist vergriffen)
Rund um die Zeit
Faltblatt zur Zeit (153.23 kb) Faltblatt über die Darstellung und Verbreitung der gesetzlichen Zeit in Deutschland
Zeit und Atomuhren (
Sonderdruck aus den PTB-Mitteilungen 4/2004):
- Piester, Hetzel, Bauch: Zeit- und Normalfrequenzverbreitung mit DCF77
- Göbel, Riehle: Die technische Bedeutung der genauesten Uhren
50 Jahre Zeitaussendung mit DCF77 (Sonderdruck aus den PTB-Mitteilungen 3/2009)
- Graf: Wilhelm Foerster, Vater der Zeitverteilung im Deutschen Kaiserreich
- Bauch, Hetzel, Piester: Zeit- und Frequenzverbreitung mit DCF77: 1959 - 2009 und darüber hinaus (aktuellere Fassung des Artikels im Sonderdruck)
- Katzmann: Die Technik der Funkuhren
Diese beiden Sonderdrucke senden wir Ihnen im Doppelpack (es sei denn, Sie wünschen es anders)
Und sonst noch:
Kunst - genau genommen (Broschüre, 2003)
Kunst am Bau in der PTB Braunschweig 1959 bis 2003 (September 2004)
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