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    Tutorial Sheet 1 Unit Measurements

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    This document is a tutorial sheet for an introductory physics course at Copperbelt University. It contains 19 problems related to units and measurements, dimensional analysis, and physics formulas. The problems cover a range of topics including converting between different units, identifying significant figures, deriving relationships between physical quantities using dimensional analysis, and determining the dimensions of constants in various physics equations.

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    This document is a tutorial sheet for an introductory physics course at Copperbelt University. It contains 19 problems related to units and measurements, dimensional analysis, and physics formulas. The problems cover a range of topics including converting between different units, identifying significant figures, deriving relationships between physical quantities using dimensional analysis, and determining the dimensions of constants in various physics equations.

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    This document is a tutorial sheet for an introductory physics course at Copperbelt University. It contains 19 problems related to units and measurements, dimensional analysis, and physics formulas. The problems cover a range of topics including converting between different units, identifying significant figures, deriving relationships between physical quantities using dimensional analysis, and determining the dimensions of constants in various physics equations.

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    THE COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY

    SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES


    DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

    PH 110 INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS


    TUTORIAL SHEET 1 2021: Units and Measurements

    1. Convert these measurements into the new given units. Give answers in
    standard scientific notation.
    (a) 204.0 kg = ________________ mg
    (b) 503.8 cm =3 ________________ litres
    (c) 0.0025 m3 = ________________ dm3
    (d) 25.9 litres = ________________ kilolitres
    (e) 60 km/h = _________________ m/s

    2. Express the following in terms of prefixes


    (a) 0.00085 l (b) 5.44 x 10-11 g (c) 73,000,000 m (d) 9.450 s

    3. Identify the number of significant figures in the following:


    (a) 9 500 s (b) 0.00702 cm (c) 1.040 x 10 -5 kg (d) 7.600 ml

    4. Define the following as they are used in Physics


    a. Physical quantity
    b. Metre
    c. Second
    d. Accuracy

    5. Express the following


    a) 100L/hour to cubic meters per second
    b) 1 atmosphere to pascal
    c) 100 Dyne to Newtons

    6. Report each one of these to the correct significant figures and SI unit
    a) 3.21 cm x 2.25 m
    b) 0.70 kg x 755 g

    7. Estimate how many people if they stood on top of each other would reach the
    moon.

    8. Express 1 light year in meters and in astronomical units

    9. What is the old and modern definition of mass and the meter?

    1
    10. An object in the shape of rectangular parallelepiped measures 2.0 in x 3.5 in
    x 6.5 in. Determine the volume of the object in m 3.

    11. If the unit of force is 100 N, unit of length is 10 m and unit of time is 100
    s. What is the unit of mass in this system of units?

    12. A furlong is 220 yards, a mile is 1760 yards or 1609 meters, and a
    fortnight is 14 days. In 1991, the Zambian athlete, Samuel Matete won
    an Olympic gold medal, in Zurich, Switzerland, when he represented
    Zambia in the 400 m hurdles. His average speed was 8.5 meters per
    second. Express his speed in

    (a) kilometer per minute


    (b) mile per hour
    (c) furlong per fortnight

    13. A unit of area, often used in measuring land areas, is the hectare, defined
    as 104 m2. A new open-pit copper mine in North-Western Province plans to
    excavate 75 hectares of land, down to a depth of 26 m, each year. What
    volume of earth, in cubic kilometers, would be removed during this time?

    14. A given formula is derived for the velocity of an object v that varies with time
    expressed as v  at 2  bt  c where velocity v and time t are expressed in terms
    of SI units; determine the units of constants a, b and c in the given equation.

    15. The centripetal force acting on a particle depends on the mass of the
    particle, its velocity and radius of the circle. Derive dimensionally the
    formula for force

    16. The speed of sound  might plausibly depend on the pressure p , the density
     , and the volume V of the gas. Use dimensional analysis to determine the
    exponents x, y and z in the formula:

    where C is a dimensionless constant. Hence write down the relationship


    between the said quantities based on the derived exponents.

    17. A Copperbelt University railways engineering student, uses dimensional


    analysis to find the distance over which a signal can be seen clearly in
    foggy conditions. The student assumes that the distance depends on the
    frequency of the signal, the density of the fog, and intensity of light
    (power/area) from the signal. Show that

    2
    where k, is a dimensionless constant of proportionality

     a
    18. In the gas equation  p  2 v  b   RT , where p is the pressure, v is the volume R is the
     v 
    universal gas constant and T the temperature, what are the dimensions of a and b?

    19. The viscosity  of a gas depends on the mass m, the effective diameter d and the mean speed of
    the molecules v. Use dimensional analysis to find an expression for  .

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