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Unit Conversion and Scientific Notation

This document discusses unit conversion and scientific notation for junior high students. It provides: 1) A chart showing the metric system prefixes from exa to milli used to modify base units and their corresponding powers of 10. 2) An explanation of positive scientific notation where numbers are written as the first digit times 10 to a power that positions the decimal point correctly. 3) A brief mention of negative scientific notation and an example of converting a number less than 1 to scientific notation.

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Unit Conversion and Scientific Notation

This document discusses unit conversion and scientific notation for junior high students. It provides: 1) A chart showing the metric system prefixes from exa to milli used to modify base units and their corresponding powers of 10. 2) An explanation of positive scientific notation where numbers are written as the first digit times 10 to a power that positions the decimal point correctly. 3) A brief mention of negative scientific notation and an example of converting a number less than 1 to scientific notation.

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Unit Conversion and

Scientific Notation
Do you still remember the metric staircase?
kilo
hecto But you are a junior high
deca student now, you will
base not use it!
deci
centi
milli
Metric Staircase (prefixes) for Junior High Student
exa (E) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
peta (P) 1,000,000,000,000,000
tera (T) 1,000,000,000,000
giga (G) 1,000,000,000
mega (M)
1,000,000
1,000
kilo (k)
100
hecto (h)
10
deca (da) 1
base 0.1
deci (d) 0.01
centi (c) 0.001
milli (m) 0.000001
micro (µ) 0.000000001
nano (n) 0.000000000001
pico (p) 0.000000000000001
femto (f) 0.000000000000000001
atto (a)
Positive Scientific Notation
Scientific notation also called standard form is a special way of writing
numbers.
Like this:
700 = 7 x 100 = 7 x 10² or 7 x 10^2
4,900,000,000 = 4.9 x 1,000,000,000 = 4.9 x 10⁹ or 4.9 x 10^9

So the number is written in two parts:


- Just the digits (with the decimal point placed after the first digit),
followed by
- X 10 to a power that puts the decimal point where it should be.
Negative Scientific Notation
•Example:
 
We want to convert 0.0055 into standard form.
Scientific notation calculation
• 
Example:
Assignment
• 

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