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Department of Electronics
College of Engineering
PAF-KIET
Problem Sheet 1
Course: Fundamental of physics
Semester: Fall 2012
Date: 12-09-12
Lecturer: Saba Javed
Answer the following questions in a neat and tidy way, showing each step of the calculation clearly and also ensuring to add the appropriate units with the answers.
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Q1. Horses are to race over a certain meadow for a distance of 4 furlongs. What is the race distance in:
rods?
Chains?
Given that 1 furlong = 201.168m and 1 rod = 5.0292m and 1 chain = 20.117m.
Q2. The micrometer is often called the micron.
How many microns make 1.0 km.?
What fraction of a centimetre equals 1 micrometer.
Q3. Spacing in a book is generally done in units of points and picas. 12 points = 1 pica, and 6 picas = 1 inch. If a figure was misplaced in the page proofs by 0.8 cm, what was the misplacement in?
Picas?
Points?
Q4. Earth is approximately a sphere of radius 6.37 x 106m. What are
Its circumference in km?
Its surface area in sqr km?
Its volume in cubic km?
Q5. For about 10 years after the French Revolution, the French government attempted to base measures of time on multiples of ten: One week consisted of 10 days, one day consisted of 10 hours and one hour consisted of 100 minutes and one minute consisted of 100 seconds. What are the ratios of:
The French decimal week and the standard week
The French decimal second to the standard second
Q6. Assuming that each cubic centimetre of water has a mass of exactly 1g.
Find the mass of one cubic meter of water in kg.
Suppose that it takes 10 hours to drain a container of 5700 m3of water. What is the mass flow rate in kg/s of water from the…