Conversion of Units: Unit conversion is a multi-step process that involves identifying the starting and desired units, finding the appropriate conversion factors, and strategically using ...

So, you are taking a college science course. Maybe it is physics, maybe it is chemistry, maybe its a lab. Either way, you always end up with these problems that involve unit conversions. You think you ...

Students learn how to express numbers in correct scientific notation. Scientific Notations and Conversions: Students learn how to express numbers in correct scientific notation and to convert from ...

Physics in Motion is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

Deluged by responses to his request for your favourite units, Robert P Crease discovers that non-SI units persist, and are sometimes even popular, among the physics community Setting the standard ...

Nick van Remortel demystifies natural unit systems — and advises what to do when you see a mass expressed in GeV. Several unit systems for describing the natural world exist. The International System ...

For many, it's the start of a new semester of physics labs. That means there are new students in that introductory course. Of course, no one is really 100 percent ready to start these labs---but ...

Physics is one of the core subjects in the JEE (Main) Examination. Students must be thorough with the physics syllabus to be aware of the potential questions that can be encountered in the JEE (Main) ...

Weighty matters: a platinum-iridium kilogram belonging to the US National Institute of standards and Technology. (Courtesy: J.L. Lee/NIST) Metrologists and policy-makers from 60 countries around the ...