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What are physical quantities?

Back

Quantities that can be measured.

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What is a scalar product?

Back

a.b = |a||b|cosθ

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What is a vector product?

Back

a x b = |a||b|sinθ

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What is absolute uncertainty?

Back

∆l

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What is fractional uncertainty?

Back

∆l/l

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What is percentage uncertainty?

Back

(∆l/l) x 100%

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What is a base quantity?

Back

A physical quantity that cannot be derived from other physical quantities.

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What is a derived quantity?

Back

A physical quantity derived from base quantities using multiplication, division, or formula.

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What is a unit?

Back

A standard measurement of a physical quantity.

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What is dimensional analysis?

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A method to determine how a physical quantity is related to other different base quantities.