Monday 21 February 2011

Understanding Base Quantities & Derived Quantities

 
Physical Quantity is a quantity that can be 
  measured.
Base Quantity is a physical quantity that 
  cannot be defined in terms of other physical 
  quantities.
Derived Quantity is a combination of base 
  quantity by multiplication, division or both 
  these operation.
 
 Example of derived quantity:
Other examples: force, acceleration, electric charge, momentum & etc

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