Ethiopian Air Force Academy

Department of Basic Science

Physics Worksheet I
1. State the number of significant figures for the following.
i. 600900
ii. 25300
iii. 648700
iv. 400m
v. 7785
vi. 5212.0
vii. 978.850
viii. 984.06
ix. 426.071
x. 6.032
xi. 0.0631
xii. 0.007
xiii. 0.0050
xiv. 6.320
xv. 9.1 x10-31
xvi. 2.64 x 1024
xvii. 0.2370
xviii. 0.045
xix. 0.0006032
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2. What is the decimal equivalent of 20 up to three significant figures.
3. What will be the sum of 999mm and 100m.
4. The length of a pencil is 10.4 cm. out of it, 2.01 cm is cut out, and the remaining length
of the pencil is?
5. The sides of a rectangle are 6.01m and 12m.Taking the significant figures into
account ,the area of the rectangle is
6. What is the difference between 11.5 ± 0.1 cm and 7.8 ±0.1 cm
7. Compute the following using the correct number of significant figures
i. 652.397 m + 48.542 m
ii. 79.54 Ω -56.24Ω-
iii. 5.67 km x π km
iv. 3.2 cm ÷ 1.4577 cm