PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND MEASUREMENT

1. Answer the following questions based on the ruler given.

A B

0 1 2 3
cm

a. What is the smallest length that can be measured using this ruler?

b. What is the length of the line AB? Show the calculation.

c. What is the length of this line (AB) in

(i) millimetre:

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(ii) metre:

2. Match the words in the two columns.

a.  Thickness of a coin i. kilogram
b.  Temperature inside the oven while baking a cake ii. second
c.  Mass of your school bag iii. hour
d.  Duration of a movie iv. degree Celsius
e.  Time interval between two succesive heart beats v. millimeter

3. a. A bus left Hyderabad at 05:30 hours and reached Kurnool at 09:45 hours. What
was the duration of the journey?

b. The height of a pile of 10 identical books is 25 cm. What is the thickness of each
book?

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 4. Measure the distance between the cities shown in the map using a ruler.
Calculate the actual distance by using the scale given below.

1cm = 350 km

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5. Circle the beaker in which water vapour will condense if the beakers are placed
at normal room temperature (20 to 25 °C). The temperature of the liquid is
mentioned below each beaker.

85 °C 55 °C 30 °C 8 °C

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