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The difference between quantity and unit in "16 pounds" is the unit is pounds and the quantity is 16.
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What is the difference between unit and quantity?
It is the rate.
What does 1 unit equal to?
A unit is defined as a quantity chosen as a standard in terms of which other quantities may be expressed. This is why we have different units for different types of measurements.
What is the unit for the amount of chemical?
The SI unit for "amount of matter" is the mole, defined as that quantity of a substance that contains as many elementary units (atoms or molecules, depending on what the substance is) as there are atoms in precisely 12 grams of carbon-12.
How do wait and mass differ?
Weight: the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs. Mass: a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: example: When on the moon for example, your weigh will differ from your weight on earth. Your mass however does not change.
Is it true that the buoyant forces on two different sized cubes made of pure iron will be the same?
No they will not be the same. Buoyant force is the weight of liquid displaced and always acts upwards. As the size differs the quantity of liquid displaced will differ and hence the buoyant force would surely differ.
How does vector quantity differ from a scalar quanity?
A scalar quantity defines only magnitude, while a vector quantity defines both a magnitude and direction.
What is meant by unit of physical quantity?
A standard use for a measurement of a physical quantity is called the unit of that physical quantity
What is a rate that's in which the second quantity in the comparison is one unit?
It is a unit rate.A unit rate.
The quantity of matter in a unit volume?
The quantity of matter per unit volume is the density.
Can a quantity have unit and still be diamensionless?
No, a unit is a dimension.
What is the quantity of millimeter?
A unit.
How does a vector quantity differ from a scalar quantity?
A scalar quantity defines only magnitude, while a vector quantity defines both a magnitude and direction.
What is the unit of a physical quantity which is represented by area under a velocity time graph?
the physical quantity is distance and unit is meters
Femtometer is the unit of which quantity?
Femtometer is a unit of length or distance.
Does a dimensionless quantity have a unit?
"Dimensionless" means it doesn't have a unit.
A rate in which the second quantity is one unit?
Unit Rate
Rate for one unit of a given quantity?
it is a unit rate
