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Question
Answer the following in detail.
What are the fundamental physical quantities? Name any three fundamental physical quantities.
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Solution
Basic physical quantities that do not depend upon other quantities are called fundamental physical quantities. There are seven fundamental quantities – length, mass, temperature, time, electric current, luminous intensity and amount of substance.
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