Practice Introduction To Measurements (1.1) - Measurements and Experimentation

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Question 1.
What is measurement?
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Think of how we measure things in everyday life.
Question 2.
Name a fundamental quantity and its SI unit.
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Think of distance.
3Question 3.
What is a fundamental quantity?
- A derived measurement
- An independent quantity
- A combined quantity
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Think about what cannot be broken down into simpler parts.
4Question 4.
True or False: Scalars have both magnitude and direction.
- True
- False
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Consider the example of distance.
Question 5.
An object weighs 20kg on Earth. How much would it weigh on the Moon where gravity is 1/6th of Earth’s?
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Consider the gravitational force at play.
Question 6.
If a person walks 5km north and then 5km south, what is the total distance covered and the displacement?
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Distance is total traveled, displacement considers direction!

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