This has some of the basic conversions on it as well as some graphical comparisons which are helpful. Below are some of the prefixes we talked about in class and their scientific notation.
Basic Conversion Factors
| Metric | British |
| millimeter | 0.0394 inch |
| centimeter | 0.394 inch |
| meter | 1.094 yards |
| meter | 39.37 inches |
| kilometer | 0.621 miles |
| gram (weighs) | 0.035 ounce |
| kilogram (weighs) | 2.2 pounds |
| liter | 1 .06 quarts |
| British | Metric |
| 1 inch | 25.4 millimeters |
| 1 inch | 2.54 centimeters |
| I foot | 0.3048 meter |
| 1 yard | 0.914 meter |
| 1 mile | 1.61 kilometers |
| 1 ounce (has a mass of) | 28.35 grams |
| 1 pound (has a mass of) | 0.45 kilogram |
| 1 quart | 0.94 liter |
SI
Prefixes
tera-
[T] 1,000,000,000,000 trillion 1 x 1012
giga-
[G] 1,000,000,000 billion 1 x 109
mega-
[M] 1,000,000 million
1 x 106
kilo-
[k] 1,000 thousand 1 x
103
deci- [d] 0.1 or 1/10
tenth 1 x 10-1
centi-
[ c] 0.01 or 1/100 hundredth
1 x 10-2
milli-
[m] 0.001 or 1/1000 thousandth 1
x 10-3
micro-
[ยต] 0.000 001 millionth 1 x 10-6
nano-
[n] 0.000 000 001 billionth 1 x
10-9
pico-
[p] 0.000 000 000 001 trillionth
1 x 10-12
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