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