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Units

Introduction to Units

Anything that is used as a standard for the measurement of any quantity is called a Unit.

System International Units (SI) is the standard system that is used all over the world to measure units.

Units of Some Elements

Length: Length is a term to identify the size of an object or the distance from 1 point to another point. The SI Unit of Length is m (meter).

Mass

Mass is the quantity of matter in a body; it can be a human body, an animal body, or anything’s body. We measure Mass in Grams (g) or kilograms (kg), 1 kilogram = 1000 grams. Kilo Means Thousand.

Time

In physics, time is always measured in seconds (s). We can count seconds very roughly, without a watch, by saying at a steady rate: ONE Thousand, TWO Thousand, and THREE Thousand, etc…

Fundamental SI Units

The Other units are based on these four units: Meter (m), Gram (g) or Kilo Gram (kg), and Second (s).

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