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The document provides 10 practice problems involving unit conversions between metric and US customary units. The problems cover converting between scientific notation and decimal form, identifying significant figures, and performing unit conversions between feet, miles, centimeters, pounds, newtons, kilograms, grams, slugs, acres, and square meters.

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The document provides 10 practice problems involving unit conversions between metric and US customary units. The problems cover converting between scientific notation and decimal form, identifying significant figures, and performing unit conversions between feet, miles, centimeters, pounds, newtons, kilograms, grams, slugs, acres, and square meters.

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Section: Date: 8/19/2021

Module 1 Activity 1
Introduction to Physics

Evaluate
1. Express the following numbers in scientific notation, retaining three digits (3 significant
figures) in the multiplying factor:

1. 345000 3.45 x 105


2. 0.0076200 7.62 x10-3
3. 4700 4.70 x103
4. 36500.00 3.65 x 104
5. 0.000123 1.23x 10-4

2. Express the following numbers as their decimal equivalents:

1. 22.3 x 10-3 0.0223


2. 1.65 x 105 165000
3. 0.25 x 102 25
4. 7.65 x 10-5 0.0000765
5. 1.27 x 100 1.27
3. Identify the number of significant figures of the following decimal numbers.
1. 0.00450 3
2. 2600 2
3. 3.006 4
4. 50.00 4
5. 60007.00 7

4. How many feet does a car go in a 100 m dash?

1 m = 3.28 ft
100 m ----ft

100 m 3.28 ft
= 328 ft
1m

5. How many centimeters are exactly in mile?

1 mi = 5280 ft
1 mi ------cm

1 mi 5280 ft 12 in 2.54 cm
= 160934.4 cm
1 mi 1 ft 1 in

6. How many lb are exactly in 1 N?

1 N----- lb

= 0.22481 lb

7. How many km are there in 5 mi?


5 mi ------ km 1 mi = 1.609 km

= 8.04672 km or 8.045 km

8. How many grams are there in 20 slug?


1 slug = 14.59390 kg 1 kg =1000 grams

20 slug -------grams

20 slug 14.5939 kg 1000 grams = 291878 g

1 slug 1 kg
9. How many cm are there in 5 ft?

1 ft = 12 in 1 in = 2.54 cm
5 ft--------cm

5 ft 12 in 2.54 cm
= 152.4 cm
1 ft 1 in

10. How many m2 are exactly in 1 acre?

1 acre ----- m2

= 4046.86 m 2

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