Re: Metric unit examples

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1 total messages Started by Landon J Wood Fri, 19 Aug 1994 21:59

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Author: Landon J Wood
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 21:59

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The Physics Newsgroup ( sorry, don't know the full path name)
has a FAQ or sorts that lists units by type and scale,
eg. meter from 10 to the - 18 to 10 to the 18.

If you have trouble geting it, email me,  the full file
is 35K so I don't post it here.
SMiles,'
L.
>
>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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