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UNITS & DIMENSIONS
Physical Quaritities:
Physical quantities are physical chovaderictics
that cam be measured
fall ATE AT height, mass, boot volume, power aadt ar
away E| these oe physical quantities
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quantity & ax physical qpuantity abt &
Measure ment:
measurement is compaxision at physical quantity
with a certain basic, oxbitravily ne
accepted reference standards ‘called Wnit, d
Basic: qfarard | Gras att Ad arent Fark war F¥ |
Arbitrarily chosen: warerat | akg acter & gash otk
garar and toner aif |
Internodionally accepted: far oat git zafesratt Br |
Fundamental or base Units
physical quantities ave interrelabed.
Cength = (velocity) ox (time)= length)
Ctime ) Cvelecity)We need only 7 physical quantities for enpladnng
LL other physical quantities. These physical
wontities axe called fiindamertal or base quontiia
The units for fundamental or base quantities ave
Called fundamental oy base units.
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BF dE sx # independent physical quantities a ar
base quantities stAT Soky Sr] az Paar aaa By Sra
afr measure ments amd calewations #fierer Br virct |
Pressure
axea Luminous Wensity
Temperature
force
velocity density
Amount of Sulostance
Resistance
Chas
energy / vnomertum power
Base Units for SI system
Base. Units for some other system
Derived units
Units oF all cther physical quantities can be expresse
Qs combination of the base units. Such units
obtained for the derived quantities axe called
derived units Velocity AY unit "my? Length & unit “in
BRE time AA unit "s Br derived ¥ |SYSTEM OF UNITS
A complete set of laase units and derived units
Is known as system of units,
Berar F steer arear one greer Heer YaTT AF unit
Systems oft Spec FE lek
cas System: cm, 9, 5
FPS ox British System: foot, pound £ second
MKS cystem: metre , kilogram 2 second
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foot (EERE errr 36
Te avoid confusion, we needed an international
accepted system of units, At present, internatidnall
accepted system of units is the Systeme Interntiossle
d! Units, abbreviated as SI.
Greneh for International )
System of Units
Base Quantity (#) Unit Symbo!
Length —————___— meter —— m
Mass kilogram — keg
Time Second—— $
Electric Current ompere —— A
Thermodynamic Temperature — kelvin K
Amount of Sulbstance——— mole —— mel
Luminous Tntensity, candela — cd.SECOND (time)
Sa fea Sr 24 awh H, Lae AAT co winutes me Sr
A minute Gr co seconds citer atar | axbitravily.
1s-= Aday = A day
24x60x6o 86400
AX HA Earth A rotation A speed oar & aS, ar ea
eRe HX orshy az ger Naisecond ar duration Ht
Set ARI | PHT ex Br EME second Br redefine Gar
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3-133 Em radiation ft Frequenci
atom GY Universe me constant ¥)
The second is defined as duration of 4,192,,631,770
periods of the vadiation corresponding to the
transition between the two hyperfine levels of the
qround state of the Cesium- 133 atom.
KILOGRAM (rmass)
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fz 1000 9 a ze ate ger Ren Phe ster ean svar 7
aeite A st uit ¥]
The kilogram is equal to the mass of she ‘international
prototype of the Kilogram Gk) kept ot the Internation)
Bureau of Weights and measures, at Sevres near fvig
GE Ste (oe) Hf tse or ant & war ¥] ether By)
A ar & H natural constayits Ab terms ¥ xedefine Gur spy)METER (or metre) CLength)
North pole 2° equator aan
Ur Ae Powis 2 dae are 7
Ciscum ference Uz" emt 1 Br
BT 10,000,000 m TAT aor Parts
arbitvarily, AY FTI eaxth ASE
ar, ar stex Ar vecreote wet
fen ur arar or) safe tex Or
HE oT ARN ate natural constants tT terme A
vedefine @rar sz |
The meter is the length of the path travelled by
light im vaccum® duxing a time interval of
1/299,792,u5— Second.
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speed of light ‘ec!
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Second ATI Yedefined meter Wr;
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PALFIMSE in se meter BF BIL FT me |
KELVIN: Crermonyivamec TEMPERATURE)
The kelvin is the fraction th331¢ of the thermodynant
temperature of the triple point cf water.
inimuan possible tem STH Frere ett Saar
~2F316°C fox too%
+, ,
Ok 273:1¢K S3B.leKAMPERE (current)
The ampere is that constant current which, if
maintained in tuo straight powallel conductoss of
infinite length, of negligible cvoss-section, and
placed 41 meter apart in vaccum, would produce
between these cunductors a force equal ta
2x107 newton per meter of dength
MOLE Cormount of substance)
The mole ig the. amount of substance oF a system,
which Covtains as may clementaxy entities as
theve ave atoms m 0. ND kg oF Carlon-12
Cit has been redefined as exactly 6.022 140 76 #1023)
(12q carbon # atoms dr ait oft AME value fix az #31)
CANDELA CLuminous Intensity)
The camdela ig the luminous Intensity, f'n a given
direction, of a source ‘ that® emits
Ymonechromatic vadiation of frequency SHO xio!* He
ond teat Mas a radiant intensity in thal divection of
A/eg3 wott per stevadian
{Watay videos for detailed explaination}SI PREFIXES
Prefix: tr Prat a7ez 26 sir eorar ire |
factor
Practical Units
Astronomical Unit (Av)
mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
2.4496 X1o'm wv 15x Iam
Light year (Ly)
distance travelled wy light in 4 year
peedof light x60 xs0x24x 365-4 mM
446 x Loe m
Poxsec
Distance at which 4 AU gultends an angle of
A arcsecond C1 degitee = 60 arc min; Lave min= 6o0xsec)
a eee
— 4. parse 5
= 6-3 x1 AL
= 3.084 x106m (3.26 Ly)Units of length
4 foot = 0.3048 m = 12 inches
4 inch = 254 om
(6049-344 m = 5280 feet
1 mile =
4 Nowtical mile = 1952 m
1 Noutical mile per hour = 1 knot Cspeed)
4d micron = tum= 107
4 Angstyom= 1A = 10m
4 fermi = lo'Sm = 4 fm
Units of Area
hacre = 4047 m*
hove = 100 m~
1 hectare =10,000m*
4 ditey= loFm
Units of Mass
Aton= 1000 kq Cmetric ton)
A Quintal = 106 k
A Mann = 40 kg
4 Pound = OH MS351237 kg ~ O45 hg
4 Pound= 16 Ounces
4 Solax mass= 2x10? kg Cmass of ouv Sun) = 4M,
1 Chandvashekhar limit= 1:4 Mo
4 Unified Atomic Mass Unit = Dalton G)=1-6¢x10?* hy
4 covet = 0.2 gUnits of Time
dminute = 605
4 hour = 60 min
4 day = 24 Nouxs
4 weeks 7 days
4 month = 28/29/30/3) days
4 yeax= 365.25 doys
4 shakes 10% Ss
Order of Magnitude
An approximate measure of tha number of digits
that a number Nas m ‘the commonly-used base ~ten
humber system.
we ~10° 05S x <5 ordey
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Peet eG eae oO) ovdes 4
we ~I0* 506 % <500 order 2
ww103 500¢ % <5000 order 3
*~ 10" Fo00g % 50000 order 4
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