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प्रश्न
Guess the lengths to draw these things. Ask your friend to draw the same. After you make the drawing use a scale to measure the length. Whose drawing showed a better guess?
| Guess its length and draw |
Measure of your drawing |
Measure of your friend’s drawing |
| An ant of length less than 1 cm |
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| Pencil of length about 7 cm |
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| A glass 11 cm high with water up to 5 cm |
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| A bangle of perimeter 20 cm |
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| A curly hair of length 16 cm |
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उत्तर
| Guess its length and draw |
Measure of your drawing |
Measure of your friend’s drawing |
| An ant of length less than 1 cm |
0.8 cm | 1.4 cm |
| Pencil of length about 7 cm |
6.4 cm | 7.2 cm |
| A glass 11 cm high with water up to 5 cm |
10.5 cm and 4.6 cm | 8 cm and 4.5 cm |
| A bangle of perimeter 20 cm |
18.9 cm | 20.2 cm |
| A curly hair of length 16 cm |
15 cm | 16.6 cm |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The principle of ‘parallax’ in section 2.3.1 is used in the determination of distances of very distant stars. The baseline AB is the line joining the Earth’s two locations six months apart in its orbit around the Sun. That is, the baseline is about the diameter of the Earth’s orbit ≈ 3 × 1011m. However, even the nearest stars are so distant that with such a long baseline, they show parallax only of the order of 1” (second) of arc or so. A parsec is a convenient unit of length on the astronomical scale. It is the distance of an object that will show a parallax of 1” (second) of arc from opposite ends of a baseline equal to the distance from the Earth to the Sun. How much is a parsec in terms of meters?
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the number of air molecules in your classroom.
Write true or false.
Every measurement involves two things – a number and a unit.
Fill in the blank.
In the ............ system, length is measured in centimetres.
While measuring the length of an object using a ruler, the position of your eye should be
Complete the analogy.
Height of a person: cm :: Length of your sharpened pencil lead:______?
Match the following.
| 1. | Length of the fore arm | metre |
| 2. | SI unit of length | second |
| 3. | Nano | 103 |
| 4. | SI Unit of time | 10–9 |
| 5. | Kilo | Cubit |
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What is the unit of measurements of very small lengths?
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Yard was used as the unit of length.
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In the parallax formula D = b/θ, what must be true about the angle θ for the calculation to be correct?
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