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DR. NORMAN CAMPBELL, in his recent book, “Measurement and Calculation,” laments the absence of a name for the C.G.S. unit of acceleration, and the phrase “centimetres per second per second” is certainly clumsy. I am not aware if any names have hitherto been proposed, but I venture to put forward tentatively the claim of ‘gal,’ for Galileo. It has the merit of brevity, and also of recalling, like the names of the electrical units, the work of a great pioneer in the experimental investigation of the subject.
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KEEPING, E. Designation of the C.G.S. Unit of Acceleration. Nature 122, 478 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122478d0
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