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Every physical quantity has to have a dimension. True or false?

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Solution

The correct option is B False
False. There are infinitely many dimensionless quantities and they are often called numbers. Few examples are:
Archimedes number (used in motion of fluids due to density differences), Decibel (used to calculate ratio of two intensities of sound), Pi (used in mathematics) etc.

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