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Units of Measure Conversion Sheet

This document provides a summary of common metric and U.S. customary units used to measure time, length, weight, capacity, area, heat energy, temperature, and power. It includes the prefixes and symbols used in the metric system as well as conversion factors between metric and U.S. customary units.

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Units of Measure Conversion Sheet

This document provides a summary of common metric and U.S. customary units used to measure time, length, weight, capacity, area, heat energy, temperature, and power. It includes the prefixes and symbols used in the metric system as well as conversion factors between metric and U.S. customary units.

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Metric Table and Units: Time

Prefix of base unit Power of Ten Prefix 60 𝑚𝑖𝑛 = 1 ℎ


times base unit Symbol 60 𝑠 = 1 𝑚𝑖𝑛
exa × 𝟏𝟎𝟏𝟖 E 24 ℎ = 1 𝑑
peta × 𝟏𝟎𝟏𝟓 P 365 𝑑 = 1 𝑦𝑟
tera × 𝟏𝟎𝟏𝟐 T
giga × 𝟏𝟎𝟗 G Area (Land) Units
1 ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑒 = 10 000 𝑚2
mega × 𝟏𝟎𝟔 M
kilo × 𝟏𝟎𝟑 k
Metric Weight
hecto × 𝟏𝟎𝟐 h
1000 𝑘𝑔 = 1 𝑡 (𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒)
deca × 𝟏𝟎𝟏 dk/da
1 𝑀𝑔 = 1 𝑡 (𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒)
Base Unit (such as 𝒎, 𝒔, 𝑳, 𝑯𝒛, 𝒈, 𝑱, 𝑷𝒂) × 𝟏𝟎𝟎
1 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒 = 1 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑛
deci × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏 d
centi × 𝟏𝟎−𝟐 c Angles
milli × 𝟏𝟎−𝟑 m 𝜋 𝑟𝑎𝑑 = 180°
micro × 𝟏𝟎−𝟔 µ 1° = 60 𝑚𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑟 60′
nano × 𝟏𝟎−𝟗 n 1′ = 60 𝑠 𝑜𝑟 60"
pico × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏𝟐 p
femto × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏𝟓 f
atto × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏𝟖 a

U.S. Customary Units Capacity: 3 𝑡𝑠𝑝 (𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑛) = 1 𝑡𝑏𝑠𝑝 (𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑛)


Length: 12 𝑖𝑛 = 1 𝑓𝑡 or 12" = 1′ 2 𝑡𝑏𝑠𝑝 = 1 𝑜𝑧 (𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒)
3 𝑓𝑡 = 1 𝑦𝑑 16 𝑡𝑏𝑠𝑝 = 1 𝑐𝑢𝑝 = 8 𝑜𝑧
5280 𝑓𝑡 = 1 𝑚𝑖 2 𝑐𝑢𝑝 = 1 𝑝𝑡 (𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑡)
1760 𝑦𝑑 = 1 𝑚𝑖 2 𝑝𝑡 = 1 𝑞𝑡 (𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡)
Weight: 16 𝑜𝑧 = 1 𝑙𝑏 4 𝑞𝑡 = 1 𝑔𝑎𝑙
2000 𝑙𝑏 = 1 𝑇 (𝑇𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑛) Area (Land) Units: 1 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒 = 4840 𝑦𝑑2
Metric ↔ U.S. Customary Heat Energy Units Temperature
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Length: 1 𝑖𝑛 = 2.54 𝑐𝑚 𝑐𝑎𝑙 = 4.186 𝐽 °𝐶 = 9 (°𝐹 − 32)
1 𝑚 = 39.37 𝑖𝑛 = 3.2808 𝑓𝑡 1 𝐵𝑇𝑈 = 1055 𝐽 𝐾 = °𝐶 + 273
1 𝑚𝑖 = 1.609 𝑘𝑚 1 𝐵𝑇𝑈 = 780 𝑓𝑡 − 𝑙𝑏𝑠
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Weight: 1 𝑙𝑏 = 453.6 𝑔 1 𝐵𝑇𝑈 = 252 𝑐𝑎𝑙 °𝐹 = °𝐶 + 32
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1 𝑘𝑔 = 2.205 𝑙𝑏 1 𝑓𝑡 − 𝑙𝑏𝑠 = 1.356 𝐽 𝑅 = °𝐹 + 460
Capacity: 1 𝑔𝑎𝑙 = 3.79 𝐿 (U.S. Customary) Metric ↔ Imperial
1 𝑡𝑠𝑝 = 4.93 𝑚𝐿 1 𝑔𝑎𝑙 = 4.55 𝐿 (Imperial)
Area (Land) Units: 1 ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑒 = 2.47 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑠 Only Capacity differs between Imperial and
Power: 1 ℎ𝑝 (ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟) = 745.7 𝑊(𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑠) U.S. Customary

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