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Physics Assignment on Time Standards

This document contains an assignment on physics with 9 questions. It provides context for summarizing key details from the assignment, including: 1) The assignment asks students to name repetitive phenomena in nature that could serve as time standards and discuss drawbacks to using a pendulum's period as a standard. 2) Students are asked why scientists find it useful to have two units to measure substance amount: the kilogram and mole. 3) The assignment contains questions on experimental measurement errors, dimensional analysis, and the relationship between wave speed, frequency, and wavelength.

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Physics Assignment on Time Standards

This document contains an assignment on physics with 9 questions. It provides context for summarizing key details from the assignment, including: 1) The assignment asks students to name repetitive phenomena in nature that could serve as time standards and discuss drawbacks to using a pendulum's period as a standard. 2) Students are asked why scientists find it useful to have two units to measure substance amount: the kilogram and mole. 3) The assignment contains questions on experimental measurement errors, dimensional analysis, and the relationship between wave speed, frequency, and wavelength.

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Punjab College of Science

Assignment of Physics (Ch# 01) Date: __________


Name _____________________________ Section______ Roll #_____________
Note: - Answer the following questions!
1- Name several repetitive phenomenons occurring in nature which could serve as reasonable time standards.
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2- Give the drawbacks to use the period of a pendulum as a time standard?


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3- Why do we find it useful to have two units for the amount of substance, the kilogram and the mole?
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4- Three students measure the length of a needle with a scale on which minimum division is 1mm and recorded
as. (a) 0.2145m (b) 0.21m (c) 0.214m Which record is correct and why
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5- An old saying is that “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link”. What analogous statement can you make
regarding experimental data used in a computation?
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6- The period of simple pendulum is measured by a stop watch. What type of errors is possible in time period?
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7- Does a dimensional analysis give any information on constant of proportionality that may appear in an
algebraic expression? Explain.
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8- Write the dimensions of (a) Pressure (b) Density


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9- The wavelength λ of a wave depends on the speed v of the wave and its frequency f, knowing that
[ λ ]= [ L ] , [ v ]= [ L T −1 ] , and [ f ]= [ T −1 ],
v
Decide which of the following is correct. f= v λ or f =
λ

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