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Physics: Physical Quantities & Density

The document defines physical quantities as measurable properties in physics and lists mass, length, and temperature as examples. It defines dimension as how a physical quantity can be expressed in terms of base units like mass (M), length (L), and time (T). The dimension of force is given as MLT-2. Density is defined as mass per unit volume with the formula m/v. Relative density compares the density of a substance to a reference, like water. An example calculates the mass of liquid displaced by a cube immersed in a liquid with a given relative density and volume.

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Physics: Physical Quantities & Density

The document defines physical quantities as measurable properties in physics and lists mass, length, and temperature as examples. It defines dimension as how a physical quantity can be expressed in terms of base units like mass (M), length (L), and time (T). The dimension of force is given as MLT-2. Density is defined as mass per unit volume with the formula m/v. Relative density compares the density of a substance to a reference, like water. An example calculates the mass of liquid displaced by a cube immersed in a liquid with a given relative density and volume.

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1. Define Physical quantities in Physics?

2. Give two examples of Physical quantity?

3. What is dimension?

4. Find the dimension of force

5.

a) What is density?

b) State the formula for calculating density?

c) Calculate the density of an iron block of volume 1 c m3 and mass 7.9g.

6.

a) Define Relative density

b) A cube of sides 2.5cm is completely immersed in a liquid of relative density 0.75,


calculate the mass of the liquid displaced. [Density of water = 1gcm3]
7.

Answers

1. Physical quantities are quantities that can be measured in Physics.

2. Examples of Physical quantities are mass, length, temperature, volume, e.t.c

3. Dimensions of a physical quantity show how it can be expressed in terms of the basic
quantities M, L , T.

4. Force=mg

Force=kg∗m/s 2

Force = MLT-2

5. Density: The density of a material is the mass per unit volume of the material. It is the ratio of
the mass to the volume of the material.

mass
Density =
volume

Given that density = ρ

Mass = m
Volume = v

m
∴ρ=
v

The S.I unit of density is kgm-3.

6.
a. Relative density is a measure of the density of a body relative to the density of a
reference substance.
Relative density is also called specific gravity and is expressed by the formula
density of the substance
R.D =
densit y of thereference substance

7. Since the cube is completely immersed.


Volume of the liquid displaced = volume of the cube.
Volume of cube of side x is given as V = x 3
x = 2.5cm
∴ V = (2.5)3
= 15.625cm3
∴ Volume of liquid displaced
V L = 15.625cm3
mL
Now ρ L =
VL

ρ L = density of liquid
m L = mass of liquid displaced.
mL = ρLV L
ρL
Also R.D =
ρw
R. D = relative density of liquid = 0.75
ρw = density of water = 1gcm-3
ρ L = (R.D) × ρw
ρ L = 0.75 × 1
= 0.75gcm-3
Substituting: m L = ρ L V L
m L = 0.75 × 15.625
= 11.72g

8. mm

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