General Knowledge - Units of Measurements

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• General Knowledge - Units of Measurements

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1. Horse power is 745.7 watts
2. 1 horse power = work equal to lifting 550 lbs of weight to one foot for one second
3. 1 calorie is equal to 4.2 Joules
4. 1 barrel is equal to 159 liters
5. 6 feet = 1 fathom
6. 1 KWH = 3.6 x 10 power 6 joules
7. A 100 watt bulb lights for 1 hour uses 100 watt hour of electricity
8. -273 degree centigrade is called absolute zero temperature.
9. Standard pressure is 760 mm or 14.7 lb/in2
10. Gross is equal to 12 dozens
11. Mach 2 = 500 miles per hour
12. 1 nautical mile = 1825 meters
13. Unit of pressure is Pascal
14. Force is measured in Newton (SI), Dyne (CGS)
15. At -40 deg F Fahrenheit scale is equal to centigrade scale
16. Hertz and Angstrom are units of frequency
17. Units of work and energy are Joule and Erg (CGS)
18. Dioptre is unit of power of lens
19. Unit is density is kg/m3
20. Unit of power is watt, BTU (Board of Trade Unit)
21. Unit of electric charge is Coulomb
22. Unit of voltage is volt
23. Unit of electric resistance is ohm
24. Unit of capacitance is Farad
25. Unit of magnetic flux is Weber, Tesla
26. Unit of radio activity is Becquerel
27. Unit of luminous intensity is candle, lux
28. Unit of crude oil is Barrel
29. Unit of volume of water is cusec, cubic/sec
30. Unit of admittance is Mho
31. Unit of intensity or loudness of sound is bel
32. Unit of viscosity is Poise
33. Unit of flight speed is Mach I
34. Unit of atmospheric pressure is milli bar
35. Unit of wave length of light is Angstrom
36. Unit of energy is Electron volt
37. Unit of brightness is Lambert
38. Unit of luminous flux is Lumen
39. Intensity of illumination or unit of luminosity is Lux, Candela and Candle power
40. Unit of magnetic pole strength is Weber
41. Unit of RAD (Radiation Absorbed Dose) is Gray
42. Unit of Electric Current is Ampere
43. Unit of inductance is Henry
44. Unit of conductance is siemens.
45. Unit of heat is Joule, Calorie, BTU (British Thermal Unit)
46. Radio activity is measured in currie
47. Rutherford : strength of radioactivity
48. Torr: pressure
49. Fermi : length [A unit of length equal to one femtometer (10-15 meter)]
50. Sved berg unit:sedimentation rate
51. Dioptre: power of lense
52. Mho : conductivity
53. Henry: inductance
54. Maxwell: magnetic flux
55. Becquerel: radioactivity
56. Kilo watt hour: power
57. Coulomb: unit of electrical charge
58. Weber: unit of magnetic flux
59. Tesla: unit of magnetic flux density
60. Siemen: unit of conductance
61. Rutherford: unit of rate of decay of radioactive material
62. Faraday: unit of electric charge
63. Angstrom: unit of length, used especially to specify radiation wavelengths
64. Parsec: unit of astronomical length
65. Degree: unit of measurement of an angle
66. Steradian: Unit of solid angle measurement
67. Dyne is a unit of Force.
68. SI unit of pressure is Pascal.
69. Curie is a unit of : radioactivity
70. Pascal Sound Pressure
71. Torr Pressure
72. Curie Intensity of radioactivity
73. Angstrom Unit of length
74. Light year The distance light travels in a year
75. Dioptre Lens refractive power
76. Horse power Unit of Power
77. Radian Unit of angular measure
78. Candela Unit of luminous intensity
79. Mole unit of amount of substance
80. What is measured in units called phon- Sound 192
81. What is measured in grains - four grains to a carat- Pearls
82. Unit of electromotive force in Volt.
83. What is the SI unit of illumination -Lux
84. Gross is equal to 12 dozen.
85. Ozone is measured in percent age.
86. An object traveling at Mach 2 is traveling approximately at 500 mph.(chk)
87. What is measured on the Gay-Lussac scale: Alcohol strength
88. Chronometer is used to measure... time
89. Anemometer is used to measure... Wind Speed
90. The clusec is the unit measuring the power of what Vacuum pumps
91. One million cycles per second is called Megahertz.
92. 0.200 grams are equal to one carat.
93. Voltammeter is an electrolytic cell for conducting electrolytic dissociation of electrolyte.
94. 8 furlongs make one mile.
95. A billion contain 1000 million. It has 9 zeroes. Similarly a trillion has 12 zeroes,a quadrillion 15 zeroes,a quintillion 18 zeroes and a decillion 33 zeroes.
96. One inch is equal to 2.5400 cms and one mile is equal to 1.6093 kms.
97. One micron is equal to One-thousandth of a millimeter.
98. 2.47105 acres is equal to what SI unit-Hectare
99. What word describes one tenth of a nautical mile-Cable
100. What is measured on the Torro scale -Tornados