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Fundamental and derived quantities and units: WAEC Physics Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Fundamental and derived quantities and units

Our summary: The basic measured quantities and their units, and the quantities built from them.

  • Fundamental quantities and units (Length, mass, time, electric current, luminous intensity, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance as examples of fundamental quantities and m, kg, s, A, cd, K and mol as their respective units.)
  • Derived quantities and units (Volume, density and speed as derived quantities and m³, kg m⁻³ and m s⁻¹ as their respective units.)

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WAEC (WASSCE) Physics questions on Fundamental and derived quantities and units

  1. WAEC 2022The joule is equivalent to?
  2. WAEC 2021Which of the following units is equivalent to the unit of electric current?
  3. WAEC 2020Which of the following units is not fundamental?
  4. WAEC 2018Which of the following quantities are dimensionally independent? I. Dielectric constant II. Momentum III. Efficiency IV. Refractive index
  5. WAEC 2018Frequency is measured in
  6. WAEC 2016The dimensions of momentum are
  7. WAEC 2015Which of the following units is derived?
  8. WAEC 2014The S.I unit of power is
  9. WAEC 2013Which of the following units is equivalent to the watt?
  10. WAEC 2012The derived unit of pressure can be expressed as

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