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Most Important) Unit Conversions

The document provides information on common unit conversions for length, area, volume, mass, pressure, energy, power, temperature, and radioactivity. It lists equivalencies between units like miles and kilometers; meters and feet; gallons and liters; and degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit. Prefixes for the International System of Units (SI) are also defined with their associated exponents for scientific notation.

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Most Important) Unit Conversions

The document provides information on common unit conversions for length, area, volume, mass, pressure, energy, power, temperature, and radioactivity. It lists equivalencies between units like miles and kilometers; meters and feet; gallons and liters; and degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit. Prefixes for the International System of Units (SI) are also defined with their associated exponents for scientific notation.

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(Most Important) Unit Conversions

 length
 area
 volume
 mass
 pressure
 energy
 power
 temperature
 radioactivity
 scientific notation

Length

 1 (statute) mile (mi) = 1.6093 kilometer (km)


 1 (nautical) mile (mi) = 1.8520 kilometer (km)
 1 foot (ft) = 0.3048 meter (m)
 1 yard = 0.9144 meter (m)
 1 inch (in) = 2.54 centimeter (cm)
 1 angstrom (A) = 10-8 centimeter (cm) = 10-10 meter (m)

Area

 1 square kilometer (km2) = 106 square meters (m2) = 100 hectares (ha)
 1 hectare (ha) = 10,000 square meters (m2)
 1 acre (ac) = 4047 square meters (m2) = 0.4047 hectare (ha)

Volume

 1 milliliter (ml) = 1 cubic centimeter (cm3)


 1 cubic meter (m3) = 1000 liters (L)
 1 (US) quart (qt) = 0.9461 liter (L)
 1 (US) gallon (gal) = 3.7854 liter (L)
 1 (US) pint = 0.4723 liter (L)
 1 (US) fluid ounce = 29.6 milliliter (ml)

Mass

 1 metric ton (m.t.) = 1000 kilograms (kg)


 1 pound (lb) = 0.4535924 kilogram (kg)
 1 ounce (oz) = 28.3495 grams (g)

Pressure

 1 pascal (Pa) = 1 newton/square meter (N/m2) = 1 Kg m-1 s-2


 1 bar = 0.98692 atmosphere (atm) = 105 pascals (Pa)
 1 pound per square inch (psi) = 68.97 millibars (mb) = 6897 pascals (Pa)

Energy

 1 joule (J) = 1 newton meter (Nm)


 1 calorie (cal) = 4.184 joule (J)
 1 kilowatt hour (kWh) = 3.6 x 106 joules (J) = 8.60 x 105 calories

Power (energy per unit time)

 1 watt (W) = 1 joule per second (J/s) = 14.34 calories per minute (cal/min)

Temperature

 from Fahrenheit to Celsius: C = (F - 32) x 5/9


 from Celsius to Fahrenheit: F = (C x 9/5) + 32
 from Celsius to Kelvin: K = C + 273.15

Radioactivity

 1 Curie (Ci) = 3.7x1010 Becquerel (Bq)


 1 Gray (Gy) = 1 J/kg tissue = 100 rad

Commonly used prefixes...


Scientific notation
Prefix........... Exponent Examples of exponential usage:
peta (P) 15 amount of CO2 in atmosphere (as C)- 750 Pg (or Gt)
tera (T) 12
giga (G) 9 pool sizes: amount of water in ocean - 1.37 x 109 km3
mega (M) 6 rates: flow of Anatarctic Circumpolar Current - 200 x 106 m s-1
kilo (k) 3 distance New York - Albany ~ 350km
hecto (h) 2 atmospheric pressure: ~1012.5 hPa (=1012.5 mbar)
base unit 0
milli (m) -3 typical amount of medicine ~1ml
micro () -6
nano (n) -9 wavelength of violet light ~400nm
pico (p) -12 size of atom ~10pm
femto (f) -15 detection limit of gas chromatographs for SF6 : ~1 fmole/L

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