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Summary of Key Quantities Candidates will be expected to be familiar famil iar with the following quantities, their symbols, their units, and their interrelationships. They should also be able to perform calculations and deal with questions involving these quantities as indicated in the detailed syllabus. The list should not be considered exhaustive.

Basic quantities quantities USUAL QUANTITY

USUAL UNIT



Electric current



USUAL

SYMBOLS

UNIT



 









QUANTITY

SYMBOLS Mass

USUAL

Thermodynamic Length

Time









temperature Amount of material

Other quantities Change of internal Distance





Displacement

 



Area

 

Volume



Density

Speed

Velocity Acceleration Acceleration of free fall



 

 



 

Power







Pressure







Torque







    



   



  



  



  

 

energy











Gravitational field

Gravitational potential

  





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strength





Gravitational

Moment of inertia Angular displacement.

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 

  

Force





Angular speed

Weight





Angular velocity

 

  

Momentum





Angular acceleration

 

  

Work



 

Angular momentum



     

 

 

Period



s

Potential energy



 

Frequency

 

Hz

Heat



 

Angular frequency



  

Electric potential





Wavelength



m



  

 



Energy

Speed of  Electric potential difference



electromagnetic



waves Electromotive force





Electric charge

Resistance





Elementary charge





Resistivity





Current density

 

   

Surface charge density



  

Normal stress





Conductance



   

Conductivity



    







Refractive index



Critical angle

 



Electric field strength



  

Focal length

 



Permittivity



  

Object distance







  

Image distance





Permittivity of free space Relative permittivity

Magnification power



Capacitance





Temperature

Time constant





Magnetic flux





Magnetic flux density



Self-inductance

  



Celsius temperature





Heat capacity



   



Specific heat capacity



     





Latent heat



 

Mutual inductance





Special latent heat



  

Reactance

 



Molar heat capacity



     

Impedance





Principal molar heat



     

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capacities Permeability



  

Molar gas constant



     



  

Boltzmann constant



   

Avogadro constant

 

 





 

   



  

 

 

 

   

Decay constant



 

Molar mass



 





Permeability of free space



Relative permeability



Force constant



  

Young modulus





Thermal conductivity

Tension





Planck constant

Half life





Work function

Number density

Activity of  Atomic mass



Relative atomic mass

  

Electron mass





Neutron mass





radioactive source

Unified atomic mass

Proton mass

Relative molecular





Mass number (nucleon number) Neutron number

constant

mass



Atomic number

 

(proton number)





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