PHYSICAL QUANTITY
Mass: formulas and units of measurement
Mass: symbol m, unit kg. Formulas and explanations for Mechanics, MCT and thermodynamics, Modern physics.
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KEY CONNECTIONS
Formulas
m = ρV
F = ma
m = kelIt
m₀ = M / Nₐ
ν = m / M
m = m₀ / √(1 − v²/c²)
pV = (m/M)RT
T = 2π√(m/k)
NOTATION
Quantities in formulas
- Mass is a scalar physical quantity that is a measure of the inertia of a body.
- Density is the mass of a substance per unit volume.
- Volume is the size of the area of space occupied by a body.
- Force is a measure of the interaction of bodies that changes their movement or shape.
- Acceleration is the rate of change in the speed of a body.
- Electrochemical equivalent is the mass of a substance released by a unit charge.
- Current strength is the charge passing through the cross section of a conductor per unit time.
- Time is a quantity characterizing the duration and sequence of events.
- The mass of one particle is the mass of an individual molecule or atom of a substance.
- Molar mass is the mass of one mole of a substance.
- Avogadro's constant is the number of particles in one mole of a substance.
- Quantity of a substance is a measure of the number of particles in a sample of a substance.
- Rest mass is the mass of an object in a reference frame where it is stationary.
- Speed is the speed and direction of change in body position.
- The speed of light in a vacuum is the maximum speed of propagation of interactions.
- Pressure is the force per unit surface area.
- The universal gas constant is the coefficient of connection between the parameters of an ideal gas.
- Temperature is a measure of the thermal state of the body.
- A period is the time of one complete repetition of a process.
- The stiffness of a spring is a characteristic of its resistance to deformation.
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