Base Quantities
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- Base quantities are the quantities that are conventionally accepted as functionally independent of one another.
- It is a quantity that cannot be defined in term of other physical quantity.
- The base quantities and its units are as in the table below:
| Quantity | Name of unit | Unit symbol |
| Length | metre | m |
| Mass | kilogram | kg |
| Time | second | s |
| Electric current | ampere | A |
| Thermodynamic temperature | Kelvin | K |
| Amount of substance | mole | mol |
| Luminous intensity | candela | cd |
[Notes: Amount of substance and Luminous intensity are not discussed in SPM physics syllabus.]
