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UNITS AND MEASUREMENTS
Assignment
1. What is the number of significant figures in 0.06070?

2. Which of the following reading is most accurate?
(a) 7000m,
(b) 7 × 102 m,
(c) 7 × 103 m
3. The mass of a body as measured by two students is given as 1.2 kg and 1.23 kg. Which of
the two is more accurate and why?
4. What does SONAR stand for?
5. Write the S.I. units of the following physical quantities:
(a) Luminous intensity
(b) Temperature
(c) Electric current
(d) Amount of substance
(e) Plane angle
(f) Solid angle
(g) Pressure.
6. What is the difference between mN, Nm, and nm?
7. If x = a + bt + ct2 where x is in meter and t in seconds, what is the unit of c?
8. Will the dimensions of a physical quantity be the same, whatever be the units in which it is
measured? Why?
9. Write the dimensions of:
(i) gravitational constant
(ii) Plank’s constant
(iii) torque
(iv) surface tension
(v) angular momentum.
10.Name at least two physical quantities each having dimensions:
(a) [M L-1 T-2]
(b) [M L2 T-1]
11.Which one is large, the number of microseconds in a second or the number of seconds in a
year?
12. Do significant figures change if the physical quantity is measured in different systems of
units?
13. Write the dimensional formula of:
(a) Angular velocity
(b) Angular momentum
(a) Impulse
(b) Surface energy
15. Write the dimensional formula of
(a) Specific gravity
(b) Coefficient of viscosity .
16.. Write the dimensional formula of:
(a) Universal gas constant
(b) Specific heat.
(a) Coefficient of elasticity
(b) Boltzmann’s constant
18. Define dimensions of a physical quantity.
19. Define the dimensional formula of a physical quantity.
20. Define dimensional equation of a physical quantity.
21. (a) What do you mean by physical quantity?
(b) What do you understand by:
(i) Fundamental physical quantities?
(ii) Derived physical quantities?
22.(a) Define the unit of a physical quantity.
(b) Define:
(i) Fundamental units.
(ii) Derived units.
23. What are the advantages of the S.I. system?
24. Classify the physical quantities on basis of their dimensional formula.
25. What are the limitations of dimensional analysis?
26. Define significant figures. State the rules for determining the number of significant
figures in a given measurement.
27. Explain the rules for finding significant figures in the sum, difference, product, and
quotients of true numbers.
28. Is it possible for an equation to be dimensionally correct still to be wrong? If so indicate
the number of ways in which this might happen.
29.. State the rules applied in rounding off measurements.
30 State the rules for writing the units of physical quantities in the S.I. system.
31. What are the uses of dimensional analysis? Explain each of them.
32. (a) Convert 10 N into dyne using dimensional analysis.
(b) Find the units of length, mass, and time, if the unit of force, velocity, and
energy are 100 dynes, 10 cms-1, and 500 erg respectively.
33. Check the dimensional correctness of the relation
V = (2GM/R)1/2
34. Suppose that the oscillatións of a simple pendulum depend on
(i) mass of the bob (m),
(ii) length of the string (1),
(iii) acceleration due to gravity (g) and (iv) angular displacement
(iv) Dimensionally show which of the above factors here an influence upon the period and in
what way?
35. Given that the period T of oscillation of a gas bubble from an explosion underwater
depends on P, d, and E, where the symbols are pressure, density, and total energy of the
explosion. Find dimensionally a relation for T.
36. If the velocity of light c, the constant of gravitation G, and Plank’s constant h be chosen
as fundamental units, find the value of a gram, a centimeter, and a second in terms of new
units of mass, length, and time respectively.
Given c = 3 × 1010 cms-1
G = 6.67 × 10-8 dyne cm2 g-2
h = 6.6 × 10-27 ergs.
37. Assuming that the mass m of the largest stone that can be moved by a flowing river
depends on the velocity y density p and acceleratión due to gravity g. Show that m varies as
the sixth power of the velocity of flow.
38. The radius of Earth is 6.37 × 106 m and its average density is 5.517 × 103 kg m-3.
Calculate the mass of Earth to correct significant figures.
39. The velocity v (cms-1) of a particle is given in terms of time t (s) by the equation y = at
+ bt+c. What are the dimensions of a, b and c?
40.Derive the dimensions of a/b in the relation:
F = a√x + bt2
where F is the force, x is the distance and t is the time.
41. Calculate the number of seconds in a:
(i) day
(ii) year
and express them in orders of magnitude.
42. A stone is lying in a fluid stream. The force F acting on it depends on the density of the
fluid δ, the velocity of flow v, and the maximum area of cross-section A perpendicular to the
direction of flow. Find the relation between the force F and the velocity v.
43. If we suppose the velocity of light (c), acceleration due to gravity (g), and pressure (p) as
the fundamental units, then And the dimensional formula of mass in this system of units.

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