quantity

Facilitates working with physical quantities such as angles, lengths, masses and temperatures.

In science and engineering it is critical to use units along with numerical values. For example, 5 meters per second is decidedly not the same speed as 5 feet per minute. Calculations must include units, implicitly or explicitly, to be correct and useful. This package provides classes for modeling quantities of specific types and their associated units as well as their use in calculations.

The International System of Units (often called 'SI' from its abbreviation in French) defines the quantity types, associated units and constants used by scientists and engineers around the world. This package models the SI base and derived quantities in its quantity_si library.

There are also many historical units, of course, that were around well before the SI came into existence. These can be found in the quantity_ext library.

The number library adds support for quantities having values of arbitrary precision and the quantity_range library adds special support for handling value ranges.

Together, these libraries give you the tools to maintain units discipline in your code and make Dart a more attractive option for many science and engineering applications by eliminating common mistakes and offering improved readability.

Quick start

// Import the core library.
import 'package:quantity/quantity_si.dart';

// Construct an Angle in radians.
var ang = new Angle(rad: 1.1);

// Construct an Angle in degrees.
var ang2 = new Angle(deg: 270);

// Find the difference.
var diff = ang2 - ang;

// Display the result in degrees.
print(diff.valueInUnits(Angle.degrees);

Key Features

  • Typed quantities (such as Length, Mass and Temperature) that are easy to construct and use in calculations.
  • Encourages use of standard units by isolating non-standard units in an extension library.
  • Support for relative standard uncertainty in quantity values and calculations.
  • Allows use of arbitrary precision values (as well as complex and imaginary values).
  • Provides access to the latest official constant values published by NIST.
  • Integration with Dart's existing Duration and DateTime classes.
  • Extensive set of quantity types and standard and non-standard units.
  • Support for untyped quantities having unusual dimensions with the MiscQuantity class.
  • Models quantity ranges, including special support for angle ranges and time spans.
  • Includes a mutable quantity with streams.
  • Metric prefixes for any unit.

Libraries

domain/astronomical
Quantity types, units and constants commonly encountered in the field of Astronomy and related sciences.
domain/electromagnetic
Quantity types, units and constants commonly encountered in the fields dealing with electromagnetics.
domain/thermodynamic
Quantity types, units and constants commonly encountered in the field of thermodynamics and related sciences.
domain/universal
Quantity types and constants with universal application.
number
The quantity package accepts both Dart's num types and the Numbers defined by this number library as quantity values and for quantity operations.
quantity
A superset of all the other libraries available in the quantity package. Import this library to have access to all the quantity types, units and constants defined in this package. Alternatively, import only the quantity_si library to stick to the types and units consistent with the International System of Units (SI).
quantity_ext
Extends the core library with non-SI units, constants, unit synonyms to enable terse constructors and expressions, and auxiliary functions.
quantity_range
Models ranges of quantities with start and end values (not necessarily increasing). Additional classes and utilities are provided for Angle and TimePeriod ranges.
quantity_si
The core library containing the fundamental quantity classes and types consistent with the International System of Units (SI, in the French acronym).
range/angle_range
range/quantity_range
range/time_period