Saturday, January 12, 2013

U1 - Physical Quantities and SI Units

Physical quantities and SI units
Physical quantity
- Can be measured
- Consists of a numerical magnitude and a unit.
- Seven basic physical quantities/base quantities

Other physical quantities such as area, volume, speed are derived from these seven quantities. They are called derived quantities.


Measurement of Time
- Measured by observing events that are repeated
- Clocks and stopwatches can be used too

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