Metric unit examples

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1 total messages Started by BLANTONP Fri, 19 Aug 1994 15:46

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Author: BLANTONP
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 15:46

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I am a physics teacher at Watauga High in Boone, NC and am working on an
assignment for my students that will deal with metric units. I want to present
them with a list of units and have them find how big the unit is, what it
measures, and who or in what area it might be used. I'm having trouble with
finding examples of really large unit ( Exa-,Peta-, Tera-) and really small
unit (atto-, femto-) examples. Does anyone have some info they would share with
me? It doesn't have to be limited to units with the prefixes listed. I'm looking
for currently used units such as gigaflops, nanometers, femtoseconds,etc.

Thanks for any help.

Patty Blanton
Watauga High School
400 High School Drive
Boone, NC 28607
blantonp@conrad.appstate.edu

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