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Grade 10 Test - Physical Quantities and Units

This document is a grade 10 physics test that assesses students' understanding of physical quantities and units. It contains 9 multiple choice and short answer questions testing concepts like significant figures, SI units, orders of magnitude, and derived quantities. Students are asked to identify base quantities, complete tables of fundamental quantities and units, convert between units, and derive the SI units for momentum and acceleration from their definitions. The test covers a wide range of topics relating to dimensional analysis and the metric system.

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Grade 10 Test - Physical Quantities and Units

This document is a grade 10 physics test that assesses students' understanding of physical quantities and units. It contains 9 multiple choice and short answer questions testing concepts like significant figures, SI units, orders of magnitude, and derived quantities. Students are asked to identify base quantities, complete tables of fundamental quantities and units, convert between units, and derive the SI units for momentum and acceleration from their definitions. The test covers a wide range of topics relating to dimensional analysis and the metric system.

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Grade 10 Physics Test #1 – Physical Quantities and units

Name: ______________________________ Form: __________ September , 2021

Asher Harrison
1. Which of the following physical quantity is not a base quantity?
A. Weight
B. Time
C. Temperature
D. Current

Answer: Weight

2. Which physical quantity has the correct S.I. unit?

Answer: Length

3. How many significant figures does the number 0.02500 have?


(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

Answer: Four

4. Complete the table below using EACH scenario to identify the fundamental quantity
and its unit. [10mks]

Scenario Fundamental Quantity SI unit for SI unit


Quantity symbol Quantity symbol

1. A man walked the lonely road Length l metre m


from one point to another
without stopping

2. When the student was sick, Temperature T Kelvin K


her neck felt warm.

3. When the boy touched the Electric Current l ampere A


loose wire he felt a shock.

4. Neil Armstrong went to the Mass m kilogram kg


moon and reported feeling
lighter than when on earth.

5. Usain bolt ran the race in the Time t second s


blink of an eye. Time t

1 [Total 41mks.]
Grade 10 Physics Test #1 – Physical Quantities and units

Name: ______________________________ Form: __________ September , 2021

second s

5 The table below shows the measurements of lengths for four different objects

Readings
5 -2
7.2 × 10 µm, 7.2 × 10 cm, 7.2 × 103 mm, 7.2 × 10-6 km

a. Which reading is the longest? [1] 7.2 x 10^3 mm

b. Which reading is the shortest?[1] 7.2 x 10^5 um

c. Arrange the readings according to descending order[2]

7.1 x 10^3mm, 7.2 x 10^-6 km, 7.2 x 10^-2cm, 7.2 x 10^5 um

d. Which reading is more than one (1) metre?[1] 7.2 x 10^3mm

e. A cube of sides 7.2 × 103 mm. State the volume of the cube in the unit m3.[4]

3.7m^3

6.No calculators for ques. 9a [2mks]

600000000

7. What is the ratio of Milky Way radius to our solar system radius given that, the distance from
Pluto to sun is 5.9×10 12 meters and the Milky Way disk radius is 3.9×1020 meters. Round the
coefficient to the nearest tenth. [2mks]

Answer – 6.6 x 10^7

8.Convert the measurement into SI unit and re-write in standard form [3mks each]

(a) Mass of the earth = 6 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 0000g= 6x10^27

(b)The wavelength of a visible light is 0.00042mm= 44.2 x 10^-7

c) Radio Melaka Frequency of radio wave = 102.3 MHz=

2 [Total 41mks.]
Grade 10 Physics Test #1 – Physical Quantities and units

Name: ______________________________ Form: __________ September , 2021

9.Derive the S I units for the quantities specified. [3mks each]

(a)Momentum = mass x velocity [velocity = distance/ time]

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

S I Unit for Momentum = kgm/s

S I Unit in words = kilogram meter per second

(b) Acceleration = Velocity/ time

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

S I Unit for Acceleration = m/s^2

S I Unit in words = meters per second square

3 [Total 41mks.]

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