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SI Units and Solar System Overview

This document lists the SI base units for common physical quantities such as length, mass, time, force and energy. It then provides 3 sentences about scales in our universe, from our solar system containing the sun and planets including Earth, to our galaxy containing billions of stars and planetary systems, to the universe containing billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and planets.

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SI Units and Solar System Overview

This document lists the SI base units for common physical quantities such as length, mass, time, force and energy. It then provides 3 sentences about scales in our universe, from our solar system containing the sun and planets including Earth, to our galaxy containing billions of stars and planetary systems, to the universe containing billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and planets.

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Quantity SI Unit

Length Meter
(m)
Mass Kilogram
(kg)
Time Second
(s)
Force Newton
(N)
Energy Joule (J)
The solar system is the sun and its planets, including Earth. Our galaxy contains
our solar system plus billions of other stars and whatever planets orbit around
them. The universe includes everything: billions of galaxies, each containing
billions of stars and, presumably, billions of planetary systems.

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