Name: What Is Mass?
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Description: Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (rate of change of velocity to time) when a net force is applied....

Question

List the multiples and submultiples of the SI unit of length.

Accepted Answer

Length is defined as the distance between two points. The standard unit of measurement of length is $metre (m)$ . Smaller lengths are measured in $centimetre (cm)$ and $millimetre (mm)$ . Larger lengths are measured in $kilometre (km)$ .

Multiples and submultiples are used to represent larger units and smaller units respectively.
Multiples and submultiples are represented by some prefixes whose values are powers of $10$ .

List the multiples and submultiples of the SI unit of length:

Multiples/
Submultiples Prefix Name of the unit Symbol Measures

Multiples deca decametre $dam$ $10$ times of a metre $(10^{1} m)$

hecto hectometre $hm$ $100$ times of a metre $(10^{2} m)$

kilo kilometre $km$ $1000$ times of a metre $(10^{3} m)$

Submultiples deci decimetre $dm$ $\frac{1}{10}$ times of a metre $(10^{1} m)$

centi centimetre $cm$ $\frac{1}{100}$ times of a metre $(10^{- 2} m)$

milli millimetre $mm$ $\frac{1}{1000}$ times of a metre $(10^{- 3} m)$

List the multiples and submultiples of the SI unit of length.

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