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Physical Quantity MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

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  • Physical quantity is considered one of the most asked concept.

  • 23 Questions around this concept.

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Which of the following is NOT a fundamental physical quantity?

 

The ratio of intensities of consecutive maxima in the diffraction pattern due to a single slit is 

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Physical quantity
  • A quantity which can be measured and expressed in the form of laws is called a Physical quantity. 

  • A physical quantity is expressed completely by its magnitude and unit   

  • One physical quantity can be represented in terms of one or more units.   

  Q=n\: u

                     n= numerical \: value \ \ or \ \ magnitude 

                     u= unit

  • For a physical quantity

               nu =constant

             So  n_{1}u_{1}=n_{2}u_{2}= constant

            So  n\alpha \frac{1}{u}

            So Larger the unit smaller will be the magnitude.

  • Types of the physical quantity 

1) Scalar Quantity

The quantities having magnitude only are known as scalar quantity.

 It does not specify the direction.

Scalar quantity can be added or subtracted by the laws of addition or subtraction

Examples-Distance, time, work, energy, etc......

2) Vector Quantity

The quantities having both directions as well as magnitude are known as vector quantities.

It has a specific direction.

Vector quantity can be added and subtracted according to vector laws of addition.

Examples - Displacement , force ,velocity, acceleration, momentum ....etc.

3) Tensor Quantity

  Scalar and vector are special cases of a tensor.

Tensors are represented in the multi-dimensional array, i.e, in different directions, tensor will have different magnitudes.

  1. If a tensor has only magnitude and no direction, it is called scalar

  2. If a tensor has magnitude and one direction, it is called vector.

 Examples- Stress, The moment of inertia, coefficient of viscosity

4) Ratio Quantity

When a physical quantity is the ratio of two similar quantities.

eg.\ Relative \: density = \frac{density\: of \: object}{density\: of\: water at\ 4^{\circ}c}

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