Submitted by tushar pramanick on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 11:52

► The Chosen standard used for measuring a physical quantity

Unit should be:

  • Well Defined
  • easy to reproduce
  • easy to compare
  • internationally accepted
  • independent of changes in physical conditions

Units are of two types- i. fundamental Unit ii. Derived Unit

In SI units , there are seven fundamental units given in the following table:

Physical QuantitySI UnitSymbol
Lengthmetrem
MassKilogramkg
Timeseconds
Electric CurrentampereA
TemperaturekelvinK
Luminuous intensitycandelaCd
Amount of substancemolemol

 

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