Friday, October 17, 2014

UNITS

Fundamental Units

  • Define Describe and differentiate between unit of measure
  • Determine which are fundamental
  • Come up with a standard to describe a certain amount of a quantity
    • Ex. Distance
      • fundamental-"Yes"
      • Description-the amount of space between to points in a linear plane
      • Standard-1 foot - the length of the foot of the king of England
        • note: this is a standard but it has some serious issues
Assignment 1:
  • Read and post to the blog
  • Come up with a standard for each of the 3 quantities discussed in class listed below
    • POST as a reply to each one
Assignment 2:
  • Create an organized chart (using a ruler) to put the name of the measurements the standards symbol and unit of measure.   Chart should take up entire page and be hamburger not hotdog in your notebook.   5 columns and 7 rows!
  • Use this link to complete your chart  Fundamental Units
  • Print & Read:Kilogram losing mass
  • Watch this Video Veratasium
  • Write down any questions/ Post to the Blog under assignment 2 below
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 19, 2014 at 5:10 AM

    Mass
    Fundamental- Yes
    Description- body of coherent matter
    Standard- 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12
    Honors Physics Mod 6 CA

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    1. AnonymousOctober 19, 2014 at 5:12 AM

      2nd Standard- Elementary entities must be specified and can be any form of matter such has atoms, molecules, or other groups for each particle

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    2. AnonymousOctober 19, 2014 at 5:15 AM

      This should say Mole not Mass, sorry for the confusion
      3rd Standard- Mass per mole of any substance = molar mass

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  2. UnknownOctober 19, 2014 at 4:18 PM

    Mass
    Fundamental- yes
    Description- amount of stuff
    Standard- 4.59 x 10^7 Planck masses
    HP Mod 6 SL

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    1. UnknownOctober 19, 2014 at 4:18 PM

      I'm not sure what Standard means. I'm having trouble understanding and finding what the standard of all the 7 fundamentals are.

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    2. UnknownOctober 19, 2014 at 4:26 PM

      Also, why is the king of England's foot wrong for the standard for length? I understand that if they change the length whenever a new king came into power, then it wouldn't be standard, but I thought they just kept the length based off of one king's foot?

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  3. AnonymousOctober 20, 2014 at 6:35 AM

    Temperature
    Fundamental- yes
    Description- amount of hotness/coldness
    Standard- 273.15 Kelvin
    HP Mod 6 JB

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  4. AnonymousOctober 20, 2014 at 8:24 AM

    temperature
    fundamental-yes
    description- degree of hotness or coldness
    standard- 273.15 kelvin
    HP Mod 6 TW

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  5. AnonymousOctober 20, 2014 at 9:54 AM

    I'm not sure what you discussed in class,but..

    length
    fundamental - yes
    description - the measurement of something from end to end (fun fact: The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second)
    standard - 1 meter
    HP Mod 6 SP

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  6. AnonymousOctober 20, 2014 at 7:18 PM

    Mass
    Fundamental-Yes
    Description: Amount of stuff
    Standard: Equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram
    Honors Physics Mod 6 DT

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