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General Physics 1: Week 1: Units and Physical Quantities
General Physics 1: Week 1: Units and Physical Quantities
General Physics 1: Week 1: Units and Physical Quantities
UNIT
01 UNITS 03 CONVERSION
SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM
02 NOTATION 04 SOLVING
2 Major Systems of Units
S. I. Units English Units
➢ a.k.a. metric system ➢ a.k.a. customary or
(m, kg) imperial system (ft, lb)
➢ is the standard system ➢ were historically used in
agreed upon by nations once ruled by
scientists and British Empire
mathematicians.
7 Fundamental Quantities
Quantity SI Unit Symbol
Length meter m
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Mass kilogram kg
Time second s
Temperature Kelvin K
Electric Current Ampere A
Amount of mole mol
Substance
Luminous Intensity candela Cd
Scientific Notations
is a way to write either a relatively large and relatively
small numbers using exponents.
12 m x 1 km x 3600 s
s 1000 m 1 hr
Speed = 43.2 km / hr
Unit Conversion
Solve for the following:
2. Lily Go is travelling at a speed of 40 km/hr. What is
its equivalent in mi / hr?
40 km x 1 mi
hr 1.609 km
Speed = 24.86 mi / hr
Practice Exercises
Which of the
1
following is a Length Meters m
quantity? A B C
Which of the
2
following is a Mass Kilogram kg
A B C
unit?
Which of the
3 following is a Temperature Kelvin K
A B C
symbol?
Practice Exercises
From the example,
prefix Exa is used for
4 Uhm, not so
meters. Can it be used Yes No
as a prefix for other sure 👉 👈
quantities? A B C
7
Is 23.02 x 10−2 an
example of proper Yes No
scientific notation? A B
Practice Exercises
8 When converted to proper
scientific notation, will 1,500 Yes No
and 2,500 have the same
order of magnitude? A B