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Understanding Dimensionless Quantities

Dimensionless quantities are quantities that have no physical units assigned to them and are measured in units of one. They are useful in fields like mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering. Examples include ratios that compare two similar quantities, like comparing the speed of an object to the speed of light using a dimensionless number. Dimensionless quantities can aid understanding by removing explicit physical dimensions and expressing relationships between quantities simply as numbers.

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Understanding Dimensionless Quantities

Dimensionless quantities are quantities that have no physical units assigned to them and are measured in units of one. They are useful in fields like mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering. Examples include ratios that compare two similar quantities, like comparing the speed of an object to the speed of light using a dimensionless number. Dimensionless quantities can aid understanding by removing explicit physical dimensions and expressing relationships between quantities simply as numbers.

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In dimensional analysis, a dimensionless quantity is a quantity to which no physical dimension is


assigned, also known as a bare, pure, or scalar quantity or a quantity of dimension one,[1] with a
corresponding unit of measurement in the SI of one (or 1) unit[2][3] that is not explicitly shown.
Dimensionless quantities are widely used in many fields, such
as mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and economics. Examples of quantities to which
dimensions are regularly assigned are length, time, and speed, which are measured in dimensional
units, such as metre, second and metre per second. This is considered to aid intuitive
understanding. However, especially in mathematical physics, it is often more convenient to drop the
assignment of explicit dimensions and express the quantities without dimensions, e.g., addressing
the speed of light simply by the dimensionless number 1.

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