Velocity Experiments

Assignments will be passed back on Monday. If you haven't finished graphing your slow flyer lab please do that and hand it to me on Monday.

Thanks!
Hope you all enjoyed campout!
Nina

Scientific Notation Tutorial

LARGE NUMBERS:
Scientific notation is a way of keeping track of very large or really small numbers.

For example, 1.23 x 10¹¹ miles can be written as 123,000,000,000. That is an example of denoting a very large number. A common use of this is writing avagadros number: 6.0221415 × 10²³ An important number in chemistry studies. It is the amount of molecules of any one substance in any gram.

Scientific notation can also assist us by eliminating the need to write so many zeros to describe a very very small number.

For example, 9.9 x 10^-10, which can be written the same as .0000000099. They are the same number. Just written differently.

Here is an explanation, http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/scinot.html

or also seen here on your assignment:

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/scinot.html

Links on Metric Tutorials

Metric system tutorial and explanation (very clear, not much reading)

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/meteng/LesMetr.htm

Metric system tutorial, more explanation:

http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=47

Metric/English Conversions ( a list of resources):

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/math-topic.cfm?TopicCode=meteng