Saturday 8 October 2011

(September 22 Class) Units

In class we learned all about the different SI units, which include;

SI BASE UNITS 


Base Quantity                          Base Unit                                     Symbol
Length-----------------------------meter------------------------------m
Mass------------------------------kilogram---------------------------kg
Time------------------------------second-----------------------------s
Temperature----------------------kelvin------------------------------K
Amount of a substance------------mole------------------------------mol
Electric Current-------------------ampere----------------------------A
Luminous intensity----------------candela-----------------------------cd

COMMON METRIC PREFIXES 



Prefix

Abbreviation

Meaning

Mega-
M
106 or 1000000
Kilo-
k
103 or 1000
Deci-
d
10-1 or 0.1
Centi-
c
10-2 or 0.01
Milli-
m
10-3 or 0.001
Micro-
µ
10-6 or 0.000001
Nano-
n
10-9 or 0.000000001
Pico-
p
10-12 or 0.000000000001


IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT UNITS PLEASE REFER TO THE LINK BELOW THANKS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_derived_unit


SOFIA NGUYEN


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