Quantities and Units
Fundamental quantities
What is mass, distance, and time?
Kilo =
What is 1,000?
56100 in scientific notation will result in a ________________ exponent.
What is positive?
5.6 X 104
the number of significant digits in 12.5cm
What is 3?
A quantity that includes a magnitude and a unit
What is a scalar quantity?
MKS units
What are meter, kilogram, and seconds?
centi =
What is 1/100?
What is negative?
1.56 X 10-4
the estimated digit in 12.5cm.
What is .5?
A quantity that includes a magnitude, a unit and a direction.
What is a vector quantity?
Examples of derived quantities
What is velocity, area, density, etc...?
milli =
What is 1/1000
1.3 X 103 in decimal notation
What is 1,300?
The # of significant digits in 12.50 is __________
The estimated digit is ______
What is 4, 0?
An example of a scalar quantity
What is mass, length, time, temperature, speed, ....
Example of derived units
What is m/s, m2, cm3, etc...?
Grams in a kilogram
What is 1,000?
1.3 X 10-3 in decimal notation
What is .0013?
The closeness of a measurement to the accepted value is ___________________
The reproducibility of a measurement is __________________
What is accuracy, precision?
An example of a vector quantity
What is velocity, displacement, momentum, weight, ...
Derived quantities are made up of ___________
What is "two or more fundamental quantities"?
Centimeters in a meter
What is 100?
The purpose of scientific notation
What is "to make long numbers numbers easier to use/read"?
The # of significant digits in 120,500 is ____________
The estimated digit is ___________
What is 4, 5?
Speed is a ________________ quantity.
Velocity is a _______________ quantity.
What is scalar, vector?