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  • Dimensionless Physical Quantities: Understanding Unitless Measurements
    Physical quantities that do not have units are called dimensionless quantities. Here are some examples:

    * Angle: Measured in radians or degrees, but these are not fundamental units, they're ratios of lengths.

    * Relative humidity: A percentage, which is a ratio of two quantities with the same units.

    * Specific gravity: The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a reference substance, so units cancel out.

    * Refractive index: A ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in a medium, making it unitless.

    * Strain: A measure of deformation, expressed as a ratio of change in length to original length, resulting in no units.

    * Poisson's ratio: The ratio of lateral strain to axial strain, making it unitless.

    Important Note: Even though dimensionless quantities don't have units in the conventional sense, they can still be expressed with specific numbers or symbols (like radians or percentages).

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