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SI Units and Unit Conversion Slides

The document provides guidance for students to complete notes on scientific units, unit conversions, prefixes, and scientific notation using guided notes and sample problems, instructing students to work in groups at their tables but not change tables. It includes explanations of SI units, unit conversions between seconds and minutes and between pounds and kilograms, and examples of using prefixes and scientific notation.
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SI Units and Unit Conversion Slides

The document provides guidance for students to complete notes on scientific units, unit conversions, prefixes, and scientific notation using guided notes and sample problems, instructing students to work in groups at their tables but not change tables. It includes explanations of SI units, unit conversions between seconds and minutes and between pounds and kilograms, and examples of using prefixes and scientific notation.
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Day 3

Use these slides to complete your guided notes on


SI units, Unit Conversions, Prefixes, and Scientific
notation.
Attempt all sample problems. You may work in
groups at your table. YOU MAY NOT CHANGE
TABLES.
Warm up
1. How many seconds are in 2.5 hours?
2. How many kgs does a 150 lbs. person weigh?
1 lbs. = 0.45 kgs
Units and Conversions
How do we measure time?
• Time can be measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months,
years, decades and so on.
What are ‘units’ of measurement?
• Units of measurements are just the way we define an amount of
something.
• Here are some examples. In each example the unit is underlined.
• I am 33 years old.
• The movie was 2 hours and 13 minutes long.
• I have a mass of 75 kilograms.
• The chief needs 4 dozen eggs for tomorrow.
So if I were to ask you to measure time you
would need to use your judgment when
choosing the correct units. You would pick your
units based off of how much time you are
measuring and who will be looking at your
measurement.
Examples: How old are you?
How long will you be at the store?
How long until the final?
What measuring system do
we use in America?
In America we still use ‘imperial’ or ‘standard’ system of units.

Examples of standard units:


inches, miles, pounds.

Only 3 Countries in the world use


the Standard/Imperial system.
What measurement system does the rest of
the world use?
S.I. Units
International system of units.
French: Système international d'unites
Examples of SI units: meters, grams
- In science there are many symbols and
abbreviations.

- Example: The standard unit for mass is


pounds (lbs). I weight 155 pounds (lbs).
Time (t)
• Si unit for time is the second (s).
• Standards unit for time is also the second (s)
• Conversion rates
• 60 seconds (s) = 1 minute (min)
• 24 hours (hrs) = I day
Mass

In America, mass is measured in pounds (lbs).


The SI Unit for mass (m) is the gram (g) or Kilogram (kg)
Conversions rates
1 lb (pound) = 0.45 kg

Problem:
1. 150 lb person = _____ kg
2. How many pounds are in 55 kgs?
Length/Distance
• Meter is the SI Unit for length and distance.
• Feet is the standard unit.
Conversion rates
1 meter = 3.28 feet
1 mile = 1609 meters
1 meter = 1.09 yards
Problem:
1. 1 football field = 120 yards. How many meters are in a
football field?
2. If your are 5 ft and 3 inches tall, what is you height in
meters?
Here are the SI units you need to know for now.
Remember, these are not the only units of measurement.
These are just the ‘base’ unit.
Notice that both mass and meter have m as there
symbol. Be careful. This can become confusing.
How do we define a ‘good’ measurement
• When taking measurement there are bound to be
mistakes.
• When is a mistake ok? When do we need to
remeasure?
Precision vs. accuracy

• Accuracy refers to the closeness of a measured value


to a standard or known value. For example, if in lab
you obtain a weight measurement of 3.2 kg for a
given substance, but the actual or known weight is 10
kg, then your measurement is not accurate. In this
case, your measurement is not close to the known
value.
• Precision refers to the closeness of two or more
measurements to each other. Using the previous
example, if you weigh a given substance five times,
and get 3.2 kg each time, then your measurement is
very precise.
• Precision is independent of accuracy. You can be very
precise but inaccurate, as described above. You can
also be accurate but imprecise.
• For example, if on average, your measurements for a
given substance are close to the known value, but the
measurements are far from each other, then you have
accuracy without precision.
This picture will help you visualize the difference
between Accuracy and precision.
What does ‘error’ mean in science?
• Error is not a mistake
• Error is the unavoidable difference between a measurement and
the true value.
• Example: If I were going to just my hand and a stop watch to
measure how long you are airborne when you jump off the
ground my measurement would have unavoidable error because
there is a delay in my reaction time. I can minimize this error by
focusing and trying to be quick but I can not eliminate the error
completely.
How do we define a ‘good’ measurement
• These questions do not have simple answers.
• Scientist must make this determination on a case by case basis.
• Example: if your measurement is 2 inches off is that ‘ok?’
• If you are measuring the length of North Carolina and you are only 2 inches
off than that is an acceptable difference.
• If you are measuring a table then 2 inches is a significant difference and the
table should be remeasured.
Prefixes
• Prefixes are put onto base units to increase or decrease the unit be a
power of 10.
• Example: centi- is put onto meter to make centimeter (cm)
• Conversion rate: 100 centimeters (cm) = 1 meter (m)
Prefixes go up and down by a factor of 10.
More Examples:
- If you have a
kilogram than you
have 1000 grams.
- If you have a
decimeter than you
have 1/10th of a meter.
You will have plenty of practice with prefixes through this
semester.
Problems:
1. What is bigger, one kilometer or one
millimeter?
2. How many kgs are in 115,000 grams?
3. How many milliliters are in 13 liters?
Scientific notation
• In science we deal with very large and very small
numbers.
• Writing them out can be time consuming and can lead
to error.
• Scientific notation is a way of writing very large and
very small numbers in a way that is easier to
understand.
Scientific Notation
• For example the speed of light is 2.99 x m/s.
• If I were to write this out it would be 29,900,000,000
m/s (meter per second).
• In this example
• The coefficient is 2.99
• The base is 10 (it will always be 10)
• The exponent was 8
Scientific Notation
• When converting a number to scientific notation you
keep only the significant figures.
• Significant figures of a number are digits that carry
meaning contributing to its measurement resolution.
For example, use this picture to tell me how
long the blue piece of paper is.
You could say it is 1 cm
long but we can be more
accurate than that.
I would be more
accurate to say it is
1.25 cm long.
This measurement
has 3 significant
figures.
If I said the paper
was 1.2555555 cm
long the underlined
digits are inaccurate
and can not be
considered
significant.
Problems:
1. 2x104 = _____________
2. 3. 08x106 = _____________
3. 4.5x10 = _____________
-4

4. 3,800 = _____________
5.9,800,000= _____________
6. 0.0000089 = _____________
Video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQpQ0hxVNTg
Classwork/homework
• Ask the substitute for the Unit Conversion Worksheet. Complete
this individually and check your answers with other people at
your desk.
Day 5 - Friday

Complete the Gizmos on Unit Conversion

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