Choosing appropriate apparatus
What Choosing appropriate apparatus means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Matching each instrument to the quantity it measures, such as a ruler or metre rule for length and a balance for mass.
Matching each instrument to the quantity it measures, such as a balance for mass and a stopwatch for time.
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