UNITS OF MEASUREMENT



•               1 horse power is 745.7 watts

•               1 horse power = work equal to lifting 550 lbs of weight to one foot for one second

•               1 calorie is equal to 4.2 Joules

•               1 barrel is equal to 159 liters

•               6 feet = 1 fathom

•               1 kwh = 3.6 x 10 power 6 joules

•               A 100 watt bulb lights for 1 hour uses 100 watt hour of electricity

•               -273 degree centigrade is called absolute zero temperature.

•               Standard pressure is 760 mm or 14.7 lb/in2

•               Gross is equal to 12 dozens

•               Mach 2 = 500 miles per hour

•               1 nautical mile = 1825 meters

•               Unit of pressure is Pascal

•               Force is measured in Newton (SI), Dyne (CGS)

•               At -40 deg F Fahrenheit scale is equal to centigrade scale

•               Hertz and Angstrom are units of frequency

•               Units of work and energy are Joule and Erg (CGS)

•               Diopter is unit of power of lens

•               Unit is density is kg/m3

•               Unit of power is watt, BTU (Board of Trade Unit)

•               Unit of electric charge is Coulomb

•               Unit of voltage is volt

•               Unit of electric resistance is ohm

•               Unit of capacitance is Farad

•               Unit of magnetic flux is Weber, Tesla

•               Unit of radio activity is Becquerel

•               Unit of luminous intensity is candle, lux

•               Unit of crude oil is Barrel

•               Unit of volume of water is cusec, cubic/sec

•               Unit of admittance is Mho

•               Unit of intensity or loudness of sound is bel

•               Unit of viscosity is Poise

•               Unit of flight speed is Mach I

•               Unit of atmospheric pressure is milli bar

•               Unit of wave length of light is Angstrom

•               Unit of energy is Electron volt

•               Unit of brightness is Lambert

•               Unit of luminous flux is Lumen

•               Intensity of illumination or unit of luminosity is Lux, Candela and Candle power

•               Unit of magnetic pole strength is Weber

•               Unit of RAD (Radiation Absorbed Dose) is Gray

•               Unit of Electric Current is Ampere

•               Unit of inductance is Henry

•               Unit of conductance is siemens.

•               Unit of heat is Joule, Calorie, BTU (British Thermal Unit)

•               Radio activity is measured in currie

•               Rutherford : strength of radioactivity

•               Torr: pressure

•               Fermi : length [A unit of length equal to one femtometer (10-15 meter)]

•               Sved berg unit:sedimentation rate

•               Dioptre: power of lense

•               Mho : conductivity

•               Henry: inductance

•               Maxwell: magnetic flux

•               Becquerel: radioactivity

•               Kilo watt hour: power

•               Coulomb: unit of electrical charge

•               Weber: unit of magnetic flux

•               Tesla: unit of magnetic flux density

•               Siemen: unit of conductance

•               Rutherford: unit of rate of decay of radioactive material

•               Faraday: unit of electric charge

•               Angstrom: unit of length, used especially to specify radiation wavelengths

•               Parsec: unit of astronomical length

•               Degree: unit of measurement of an angle

•               Steradian: Unit of solid angle measurement

•               Dyne is a unit of Force.

•               SI unit of pressure is Pascal.

•               Curie is a unit of : radioactivity

•               Pascal Sound Pressure

•               Torr Pressure

•               Curie Intensity of radioactivity

•               Angstrom Unit of length

•               Light year The distance light travels in a year

•               Dioptre Lens refractive power

•               Horse power Unit of Power

•               Radian Unit of angular measure

•               Candela Unit of luminous intensity

•               Mole unit of amount of substance

•               What is measured in units called phon- Sound 192

•               What is measured in grains - four grains to a carat- Pearls

•               Unit of electromotive force in Volt.

•               What is the SI unit of illumination        -Lux

•               Gross is equal to 12 dozen.

•               Ozone is measured in percent age.

•               An object traveling at Mach 2 is traveling approximately at 500 mph.(chk)

•               What is measured on the Gay-Lussac scale: Alcohol strength

•               Chronometer is used to measure... time

•               Anemometer is used to measure... Wind Speed

•               The clusec is the unit measuring the power of what Vacuum pumps

•               One million cycles per second is called Megahertz.

•               0.200 grams are equal to one carat.

•               Voltammeter is an electrolytic cell for conducting electrolytic dissociation of electrolyte.

•               8 furlongs make one mile.

•               A billion contain 1000 million. It has 9 zeroes. Similarly a trillion has 12 zeroes,a quadrillion 15 zeroes,a quintillion 18 zeroes and a decillion 33 zeroes.
•               One inch is equal to 2.5400 cms and one mile is equal to 1.6093 kms.

•               One micron is equal to One-thousandth of a millimeter.

•               2.47105 acres is equal to what SI unit-Hectare

•               What word describes one tenth of a nautical mile-Cable

•               What is measured on the Torro scale             -Tornados

•               unit of sound named after- Alexander Graham Bell - Decibel

•               The density Smoke is measured on the Rngelmann scale-

•               Unit of electromotive force in Volt.

•               Power is measured in Watts (w).

•               Resistance was discovered by Girge Ohm in 1826, and is measured in ohms.

•               Electricity does not flow through a circuit by itself. It needs a ‘push’, or energy, to keep it moving. We call this energy the voltage of the circuit. Voltage is measured in volts (v).
•               The German scientist George Ohm (1787-1854) is best remembered for working out ohm’s law. He discovered that they voltage across a conductor such as a trip of metal or a wire – and the current following through it always vary in the same proportion. So if you double the voltage, you double the current. This is incredibly useful; because it lets you predict the current you will get for a particular voltage.
•               The thickness of silk is measured in what- Denier

•               Ohm’s law does not apply to semiconductors and conductors when there is change in temperature.

•               In our houses we get 220 V a.c. The value of 220 V represents the effective voltage.

•               One unit of electric power is consumed when 10 A of current flows for 1 hour at 100 V. 1 Unit = 1 kw hr
= 1000 w hr = 100 x 10 x 1 hr

•               If the same note is played on a flute and a sitar, one can still distirguish b/w them because they differ in quality.
•               A negatively charged glass rod has always less protons than electrons.

•               The wavelength of the X-rays is of the order of 0.1 nanometer.

•               Red, green and blue are known as primary colours. These are colours which cannot be produced by mixing with other colours.
•               Scattering of light        the duration of the day (make)

•               Oil rises in a wick of oil lamp on account of a property of matter called Capillary Action

•               a primary cell can        be charged again (not)

•               When a person can see nearer objects but not the distant ones he is said to be suffering from : nearsightedness (myopia)
•               ATP is a molecule containing high energy bonds.

•               An example of inorganic compound is carbon monoxide.

•               The time period of a pendulum on moon increases.

•               Clinical thermometer usually measures in Fahrenheit.

•               Tube light emits radiation even after it is disconnected. It is due to Fluorescence.

•               Shortsightedness can be corrected with the use of Concave.

•               Rectifier converts AC into DC

•               Atomic weight of chemical compounds is determined by Mass spectroscopy.

•               Atomic pile is a place where nuclear fission is made.

•               Drinker’s apparatus is for measuring the amount of Alcohol in the blood.

•               Dewar’s flask is called as thermos.

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•               The conversion of gases into liquid under high pressure and low temperature is called regulation.

•               If a green leaf is seen in a red light its color will be black.

•               Emerge of VIBGYOR from one side of the prism is due to refraction and dispersion of light.

•               Oxidation is the process in which electron is lost.

•               Half-time is a time of radioactive substance taken by that substance to decompose radioactivity to half of its weight.

•               Light energy is stored in the form of chemical energy due to the activity of Chloroplast.

•               Sunlight is composed of seven colours

•               Oil rises in a wick of oil lamp on account of a property of matter called Capillary Action

•               What is a Fata Morgana- Type of Mirage

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•               Freon-trademark for any of a number of chemical compounds containing fluorine, and often chlorine or bromine. Use: as solvents, as aerosol propellants, in refrigeration. It is commonly used in refrigerator.

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