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Lets talk about
■ Measurment of length
■ Measurement of mass
■ Measurment of time
■ Accuracy and precision
■ Errors
■ Significant figures
■ Dimensions
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Range of length
Atom
1 fermi = 10-15 m
1 Angstorm = 10-10m
Astronomical Unit (AU)
1 AU = distance between Sun &
Earth
1 AU = 1.496*10¹¹m
Light-year
It is the distance light travels in
one Earth year.
ly = 9.46*1015
m
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The moon is observed from two diametrically opposite points A and B on
Earth.The angle subtended at the moon by the two directions of observation
is 1° 54'.Given the diameter of the Earth to be about 1.276 * 10 ^ 7 m,
compute the distance of the moon from the Earth.
? The Sun's angular diameter is measured to be 1920’’.The distance of the sun
from the earth is 1.496 ×10^11 m? What is the diameter of the sun?
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For very heavy object we use gravitational method.
For very light object we use mass spectrograph
1 AMU = Mass of 1/12 of C-12 atom
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Measurement of Mass