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प्रश्न
You can play this game on the ground. Make two squares of one square meter each. Divide your class into two teams. Ready to play!
- Which team could make more children sit in their square? How many?
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उत्तर
Team A could make four children sit in their square.
Measure the length of the floor of your classroom in metres.
Also measure the width.
Length = 10 m and width = 8 m
संबंधित प्रश्न
The farthest objects in our Universe discovered by modern astronomers are so distant that light emitted by them takes billions of years to reach the Earth. These objects (known as quasars) have many puzzling features, which have not yet been satisfactorily explained. What is the distance in km of a quasar from which light takes 3.0 billion years to reach us?
Just as precise measurements are necessary in science, it is equally important to be able to make rough estimates of quantities using rudimentary ideas and common observations. Think of ways by which you can estimate the following (where an estimate is difficult to obtain, try to get an upper bound on the quantity):
the number of strands of hair on your head
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 |
Find the answer for the following questions within the grid.

- 10-3 is one ______
- SI Unit of time is ______
- Cross view of reading a measurement leads to ______
- ______ is the one what a clock reads.
- ______ is the amount of substance present in an object.
- ______ can be taken to get the final reading of the recordings of different students for a single measurement.
- ______ is a fundamental quantity.
- ______ shows the distance covered by an automobile
- A tailor uses ______ to take measurements to stitch the cloth.
- Liquids are measured with this physical quantity.
Numerical Problem.
Inian and Ezhilan argue about the light year. Inian tells that it is 9.46 × 1015 m and Ezhilan argues that it is 9.46 × 10 12 km. Who is right? Justify your answer.
Now guess the length and width of many other things. Measure and find the difference between your measure and your guess.
| Size of | Your guess in cm | Your measure in cm | ||
| Length | Width | Length | Width | |
| 100 Rupee note | ||||
| 10 Rupee note | ||||
| 20 Rupee note | ||||
| 5 Rupee note | ||||
| Post card | ||||
| Math-Magic book | ||||
How wide is the rectangle? ________ cm
The fencing of a square garden is 20 m in length. How long is one side of the garden?
You can play this game on the ground. Make two squares of one square meter each. Divide your class into two teams. Ready to play!
- How many of you can sit in one square meter?
There are two beautiful lakes near a village. People come for boating and picnics in both the lakes. The village Panchayat is worried that with the noise of the boats the birds will stop coming. The Panchayat wants motorboats in only one lake. The other lake will be saved for the birds to make their nests.

- What is the length of the boundary of lake B in the drawing?
The distance between one end and the other end is called ______.
What is the unit of length?
The Unit used to measure length ______.
What unit will you use to measure the length of our classroom?
SI unit of electric current is ______.
- The earth-moon distance is about 60 earth radius. What will be the diameter of the earth (approximately in degrees) as seen from the moon?
- Moon is seen to be of (½)°diameter from the earth. What must be the relative size compared to the earth?
- From parallax measurement, the sun is found to be at a distance of about 400 times the earth-moon distance. Estimate the ratio of sun-earth diameters.
One parsec is defined as ______.
The parallax method is used to measure astronomical distances because ______.
