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Prove that:-
1.The unit of pressure is a derived unit?
2.The unit of work is a derived?​

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When you describe nature, and you need standard, useful units for everything you will see that these units are linked. So you start with defining base units that are simple:

kg, meter, second, Kelvin, …

Now other units will be automatically derived:

speed = distancetime , so the unit is ms

acceleration = speedincreasetime , so the unit is ms2

Force = Mass x acceleration, so the unit is kg.ms2

Pressure is Force/surface, so the unit is kgm.s2

You can define new simple units for this, but they are still derived from the base units:

Force: 1N=1kg.ms2

Pressure: 1Pa=1kgm.s2

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In mechanics, work is defined as “force x distance”. Since energy can be measured as work, we can write energy = force x distance. Thus SI derived unit of energy has the units of newtons x meter or kg m2/s

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