Measurement and Unit Conversion
One of the key skills when working with many areas of science and engineering is the ability to understand measurement units. This assignment will let you research and practice those.
Please review the following documents:
Answer the following questions in an assignment named "0.3 Measurement and Unit Conversion" in the Module 0 Folder of your ePortfolio.
SI System
What is the SI unit system?
What is the name of the unit system we use in Canada?
List 3 more examples of SI units: litres, grams ...
What is the name of the unit system used in the United States?
List 3 more examples of units: yards, feet…
What is the SI unit for length?
Conversions
7. A pencil is 4.3 inches long.
Convert to centimeters, cm (1 inch = 2.54cm)
Convert to millimeters, mm
Convert to meters, m
Convert to kilometers, km
8. Usain Bolt is 1.95m tall.
Convert to cm
Convert to mm
Convert to feet and inches (1 inch = 2.54cm, and there are 12 inches in a foot)
Use the following table to answer the next questions:
9. Convert the following distances into meters (m). You can use scientific notation or write out all the leading or trailing zeroes:
A. 420 mm =
B. 13.4 Mm =
C. 14 585 nm =
D. 1.39 x 106 pm =
E. 1.39 x 10-6 km =
10. A resistor reads 5 700 000 ohms. Using prefixes, how else could you represent this? (list two different prefixes).
11. The moon is 384 400 km away from the Earth. How far is this measurement in Gigameters?