Rundown on SI Units and Unit conversions

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Shaleena 3C
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Rundown on SI Units and Unit conversions

Postby Shaleena 3C » Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:42 pm

can I get a quick rundown on SI Units and Unit conversions? trying to make a study masterlist

Emaad Sohail 3F
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Re: Rundown on SI Units and Unit conversions

Postby Emaad Sohail 3F » Sun Nov 28, 2021 11:35 pm

The SI base units are meter for length, kilogram for mass, second for time, ampere for current, kelvin for temperature, mole for amount, and candela for luminous intensity.

Pico- 10 ^-12
Nano- 10^-19
Micro- 10^-6
Milli- 10^-3
Centi- 10^-2
Deci- 10^-1
Deka- 10^1
Hecto- 10^2
Kilo- 10^3
Mega- 10^6
Giga- 10^9
Tera- 10^12

Putting prefixes before the SI unit gives that multiple of the unit, and the base units can be combined to derive other units. For example, the unit of force is the Newton, which is a kg*m/s^2.

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Re: Rundown on SI Units and Unit conversions

Postby Ellie Fox 2K » Fri Dec 03, 2021 3:58 pm

Hi I agree with all the units above just wanted to add the SI unit for volume is liters.

Maia Holmes Kueny 1C
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Re: Rundown on SI Units and Unit conversions

Postby Maia Holmes Kueny 1C » Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:54 pm

You can remember them because for most of them the exponent increases or decreases by three between prefixes.

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Re: Rundown on SI Units and Unit conversions

Postby 605537776 » Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:56 am

Thank you for the detailed response.


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