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1. Physical Quantities and Measurements eLearn.Punjab
QUICK QUIZ
1. Name five prefixes most commonly used.
2. The Sun is one hundred and fifty million kilometres away
from the
Earth. Write this
(a) as an ordinary whole number.
(b) in scientific notation.
3. Write the numbers given below in scientific notation.
(a) 3000000000 ms-1 (b) 6400000 m
(c) 0.0000000016 g (d) 0.0000548 s
Animation 1.5: Scientific Notation
Source & Credit: privatekgsmaths
1.6 MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
Measuring instruments are used to measure various physical quantities such as length, mass, time,
volume, etc. Measuring instruments used in the past were not so reliable and accurate as we use
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