UNIT CONVERSION

Carry out the following conversions.

How many meters are 3 miles with 14 yards and 9 feet?

79.704

3. What is the equivalent of 165 m?2in ft2?

4. Find the number of seconds in 4 days 13 hours and 22 minutes

5. What is 350 mm equivalent to?3in3?

1.- Which is longer, the 100 meters flat race or the 100 yards flat race?

2.- A competitor runs 100 yd in 10.1 seconds. If he maintains the same value of his
speed, how long will it take to cover 100 m? A. 11 seconds.

3.- A car burns gasoline with a fuel efficiency of 18 miles/gallon. Express this
fuel consumption performance in km/gallon

4.- Determine a) the volume in liters of an aquarium that is 70 cm long, 30 cm wide

and 20 cm deep; b) the area in square feet of a board that is 50 inches long
long and 15 inches wide. R. a) 42 L, b) 5.21 ft2.

5.- A man needs to mix the concrete necessary to pour a slab of 6.

inches thick that has the shape of a rectangle 6.2 feet wide by 10.5
feet long. Calculate the number of cubic yards needed. R. 1.21 yd3.

6.- The beard of a certain individual grows at a rate of 0.031 inches per day.
(about 1/32 of an inch per day). What is the rate of growth expressed
in Angstroms per minute? (1 Å = 10-10m).R. 5.6(103A/min

0.9144 meters/second
lb feet per second21 slug/ft3.

8.- Convert the following units to the absolute English system: a) kg/m2, b) utm/cm3, c)
kgm2/h.

9.- The ESTENO is the unit of force in the MTS system (Meter, Ton of mass,
Second). Calculate its equivalence in Dinas, Newtons, and Kiloponds.
10.- What is the height in centimeters of a woman who is 5 feet and 6 inches tall?
Resp. 168 cm.

11.- A single floor tile measures 8 inches on each side. If the tiles are placed side by side,
What distance in meters can a row of 20 tiles cover?
12.- A soccer field measures 100 m long and 60 m wide. What are the
328 ft

13.- The handle of a wrench measures 8 in. What is the length of that handle in
centimeters?

14.- A 19-inch computer monitor has an effective image section that

measures 18 inches diagonally. Convert this distance to meters. Answer: 0.457 m

37062.8 mm²
surface area of the notebook in square meters.

0.000129 cub.m
SUEU units? Resp. 0.00205 m30.0723 ft3

17.- An interstate highway has imposed a speed limit of 75 mph. (a)

What is this speed equivalent to in kilometers per hour?
18.- A Nissan engine has 1600 cm3of displacement (volume) and an inner diameter of
3.307 in3, 3.31
in

19.- An electrician is going to install an underground cable from the road to a

housing located 1.20 mi in the forest. How many feet of
What cable is needed?

20.- One U.S. gallon has a volume equivalent to 231 in.3. How many
gallons are needed to fill a tank that measures 18 inches long, 16 inches wide
and 12 in height? Resp. 15.0 gal

21.- The density of bronze is 8.89 g/cm3. What is its density in kilograms per
cubic meter?

22.- Determine cuántos a) kilómetros hay en 1.00 milla y b) cuántos pies hay en 1.00
km.

23.- According to the label of a salad dressing bottle, the volume of the
the content is 0.473 liters (L). Use only the conversions 1 L = 1,000 cm31 in = 2.54 cm
to express that volume in cubic inches.

24.- How many nanoseconds does it take for light to travel 1.00 ft in a vacuum?

The density of lead is 11.3 g/cm.3What is its equivalent in kilograms per

cubic meter?

26.- The most powerful engine available for the classic Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
The Ray model 1963 developed 360 horsepower and had a displacement of
327 cubic inches. Express this displacement in liters (L) using only the
1 = 1,000 cm31 inch = 2.54 cm.
27.- A square field measuring 100.0 m by 100.0 m has an area of 1.00
hectares. An acre has an area of 43,600 ft2If a field has an area of 12.0
acres, what is its equivalent in hectares?

28.- How many years older will you be in 1.00 billion seconds?
(Assume that a year has 365 days.)

29.- While driving in a foreign country, you notice a sign that indicates the
speed limit on a road of 180,000 stadiums (furlongs) per fortnight.
How much is this in miles per hour? (One lap is 1/8 of a mile, and a fortnight is 14)
days. Originally, the stadium referred to the length of a plowed furrow.

30.- A certain hybrid car that consumes little fuel has a performance of
gasoline of 55.0 mpg (miles per gallon). a) If you are driving that car in
Europe and wants to compare its performance with that of other European cars,
Express such performance in km/L (L = liter), b) What if the gasoline tank of this
The car has a capacity of 45 L, how many times will it need to fill the tank?
gasoline to drive 1,500 km?

31.- The following conversions are common in physics and also very useful. a) Use
1 mi = 5,280 ft and 1 h = 3,600 s to convert 60 mph to ft/s units.
The acceleration of an object in free fall is 32 ft/s.2Use 1 ft = 30.48 cm to express
this acceleration in units of m/s2c) The density of water is 1.0 g/cm3.
Convert this density to units of kg/m3.

32.- Neptunio. In the fall of 2002, a group of scientists from Los Alamos National
The laboratory determined that the critical mass of neptunium 237 is about 60 kg. The mass
Critical mass of a fissionable material is the minimum amount that must be gathered to start
a chain reaction. This element has a density of 19.5 g/cm3What will be the
radius of a sphere of this material that has that critical mass?

DIMENSIONALIZATION

16.- Determine the dimensional equation of the universal gravitational constant

which is involved in the well-known Newton's Law: F = GMM ’/r2 (M and M ’ = masses, F =
force), r = distance between the bodies).

11.- Determine the dimensional equation of the number π.

Dimensionless

13.- Determine the dimensional equation of Newton's Law F = m a, and of the

energy [W] = [F] [r].

14.- Determine the dimensional equation of the coefficient of viscosity ( knowing

that [ ] = [F] [r] / [A] [v].
15.- Determine the dimensional equation of the Reynolds number (R), knowing that
[v] = [R] [ ] / [ ] [r]. ( = density)

16.- In English gas stations, the tire pressure measuring devices of

cars are measured in pdl/in2 (poundal/inch)2. If we want to inflate the wheel of our
car, at a pressure of 1.8 kp/cm2, what pressure should be requested in England to
obtain this result? R. 823 pdl/in2.

EXERCISES UNIT CONVERSION AND SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

Complete the following table by writing the numbers in their three forms, if possible.

Decimal Exponential Prefix

134.65 min
0.00000072 V
2.19X104N
6.75X10-9m
8.83 TJ
4.09 cs
0.00028 lb
3.18X10-7A
7.28 aW

1.- Express in units of the International System

0.0108 km
5009 hm 3.6 thousand
0.215 dag l) 180 hours
20,903 decagrams
412.8 g n) 638 ms
f) 1,579 hg 43 of them
0.039 mm
h) 4 cm 3 dm
3 mg 60 cm

2.- Write the following amounts in scientific notation

39500 m 18,000,000 km
0.073 s 745,000,000 m
c) 12 m 0.1 cm
43,000,000 g k) 337 kg
0.0000000007 km
0.0 023 hm
0.31 s

3.- Write the corresponding amount

3.6 x 10^5 m 1.03 × 10^-5s
 1.8 × 10^-3 hm
8.48 x 10^9 kg
2.3 x 10^-7 g 7.2 × 10^-1 g
4.7 x 10^2 m
f) 107km

4.- Express in units of the International System

0.6 t f) 250 dm 9.5 x 10^12 km u) 1 mm
18 mg g) 56 cm m) 35 min 27 ds
c) 2230 g h) 76 mm 1 hour 10 minutes 32 ms
d) 312 cm 600,000 cm 1 day 77 cm
7560 mm 1 nautical mile
150,000,000 km s) 47 cg
r) 3 t

5.- Express the following amounts in m2 and in mm2

a) 32900 cm2 0.7 km2
b) 657 dam² 89700 cm2
3 km² k) 4560 dam²
1800000 dm2
350 hectares 650500 mm2
f) 6 m2
g) 567000 mm2
95 hectares

6. Express in l, m3 and ml the following quantities

32900 cm3 0.6 l 76 mm3
657 cubic decameters 18 ml 600,000 cm3
c) 3 km3 p) 2230 l 300,000 kl
1800000 dm3 150,000,000 liters
350 hm3 7560 ml 9.5 x 10^12 ml
6 m3 250 dm3 35 mm3
567000 mm³ 3000 dm3
95 hm3 89700 cm3
0.7 km3 k) 4560 dam³

7.- Express the following amounts in cm3 and liters

110 ml
b) 1st grade 27 dm3
1 m3 32 ml
d) 1 hl 77 cm3
3 km³
47 cl
g) 16 kl

8.- Express the following quantities in scientific notation.

657 78000000000
0.00058 9757000000
12580000000
0.0021 f) 12
e) 321 0.00000012
9.- Express the following quantities in scientific notation
0.369 380000000000
45000023 58,000,000,000
c) 0.263 h) 1236
0.00000256 0.120
1254700000000

10.- Express the following quantities in scientific notation

3650000 0.0000000000001256
90000000000000
15,000,000 100,000,000,000,000
0.000025 0.0000000000000000254
e) 325900000000
f) 25897000000000

11.- Write down the corresponding amounts

5.64 × 10^-6
b) 7.00.10+12h) 6.50.10+17
c) 1.56 × 10 + 12i) 5.62 × 10 + 20
d) 4.78 * 10 + 20j) 2.00 * 10 - 02
3.40 x 10^-4

12.- Write the corresponding amounts

3.20 x 10^-6
b) 1.00.10-01h) 3.50.10+02
3.58 x 10^5
d) 9,50.10+15j) 3,57.10-18
2.80 x 10^-3

13.- Express in scientific notation

0.00000564 0.0000000000000000201
7000000000000 650034000000000000
1560000000000 562 trillion
478000000000000000000
0.00034 0.00000456

14.- Write the corresponding amounts

7.65 × 10^4
b) 6.54 × 10 + 18g) 8.90 × 10 - 02
c) 2,37.10-19h) 7,6.10-11
3.10e+08

15. Express the following quantities in scientific notation.

0.0000032 487000
b) 0.1 350
c) 357800 0.000321
9500000000000000
0.0028 f) 1230000000000000000

16.- Express in scientific notation

76532 21468000000000000
6540000000000000000 f) 98600000000000
0.000000000000000000237
310000000 0.000000000075
 0.0000126 4203000000000000

Solve:

10 3 10 6
a)
10 6 10  2

10  4 10 3
10 0 10 5

101 1 10  2 10 4
c)
10 3 10 5 10 2

10 22 101 6 10  6
d)
1013 101 0 10 3

Write in scientific notation the numbers leaving only one digit.

before the decimal point and indicate the prefix where possible:

6384.22 8,230,000,000,000,000
2523.35 0.000000000001450
250 million dollars
0.0001035
0.0004
1.0001035 0.0000012
e) 3.12 7,000,000,000
f) 0.0000000006 123 trillion
325,000,000,000.0

Write the following numbers in decimal form:

i)3 10 6
j) 6.02 10  4
k) 381 105
l) 1 109

Perform the following operations in scientific notation:

Calculate expressing the result in scientific notation:

Express in scientific notation and calculate, expressing the result also in notation.
scientific

Perform and express the result in scientific notation: