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Measurements PDF
Measurements PDF
Measurements PDF
HIGH SCHOOL
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
MEASUREMENT
CONTENT
• Measurement System
• Units of Measurements
• Conversions
What do we measure?
• Fundamental properties
• mass (weight) kilogram
• length meter
• time second
• temperature Kelvin
• Derived quantities
• density, velocity, force, etc...
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US/Customary System
• The US/Customary system has many different units of
measurement
• Each unit has a completely different name
• They also have completely different conversion factors
Metric System
• The metric system has base unit and many different
prefixes
MEASUREMENT
Units of Measurement:
Volume
• US System • Metric System
• Cups • Liters
• Pints
• Quarts
• Gallons
• Fluid Ounces
MEASUREMENT
Units of Measurement:
Length
• US System • Metric
• Inches • Meters
• Feet
• Yards
• Miles
MEASUREMENT
Units of Measurement:
Weight/Mass
• US System • Metric
• Ounce • Gram
• Pound
• Tons
MEASUREMENT
US Conversions
• Length
• 1 foot = 12 inches
• 1 yard = 3 feet
• 1 mile = 5,280 feet
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US Conversions
• Volume
• 1 cup = 8 fl oz
• 1 pint = 2 cups
• 1 quart = 2 pints
• 1 gallon = 4 quarts
MEASUREMENT
US Conversions
•Weight
• 1 lb = 16 oz
• 1 ton = 2000 lbs
MEASUREMENT
Practice
A rattlesnake is 2.44 m long. How long is the snake in cm?
1) 2440 cm
2) 244 cm
3) 24.4 cm
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Solution
A rattlesnake is 2.44 m long. How long is the snake in cm?
2) 244 cm
3.0 ft x 12 in x 2.54 cm x 10 mm =
1 ft 1 in. 1 cm
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Significant digits
• The digits reported in a measured
quantity
• Indicate the precision of the
measuring instrument
• Calculations should not have more
significant digits than the least
number of significant digits in the
problem.
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Scientific Notation
• Used for expressing very large or very small values
• standard form
• base x 10 exponent
• base is between 1.0 and 9.999…
• if exponent is positive the value is greater than 1
• if exponent is negative the value is less than 1