Tools & Skills for Quantitative Thinking and Scientific Notation
About the Lecture
The lecture Tools & Skills for Quantitative Thinking and Scientific Notation by Jared Rovny, PhD is from the course Methods and Common Calculations. It contains the following chapters:
- Tools and Skills for Quantitative Thinking
- Scientific Notation
Included Quiz Questions
How is the number 123,000,000 written in scientific notation?
- 1.23 x 10^8
- 1.23 x 10^6
- 123 x 10^6
- 1.23 x 10^(-8)
- 123 x 10^(-8)
You have just solved a problem and gotten an answer of 1,230,000 m. Which choice is a valid representation of your answer?
- 1.23 × 10^6 m
- 1.23 × 10^6 Mm
- 1.23 × 10^(-6) m
- 1.23 × 10^(-6) Mm
- 1.23 × 10^6 km
What is another way of writing the quantity 6.5 × 10^6 μm?
- 6.5 m
- 0.0000065 m
- 65,000 μm
- 65 m
- 65,000,000 m
Which of the following options is equal to 1.16 x 10^8?
- 116,000,000
- 11,600,000
- 116,000,000,000
- 1.1600000000
- 116,000,000.000
What is 1 ns in terms of seconds?
- 10^(-9) s
- 1e+9 s
- 1e+8 s
- -1000000000 s
- -1/1,000,000,000 s
Author of lecture Tools & Skills for Quantitative Thinking and Scientific Notation
Jared Rovny, PhD
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This introduction is simple and dense. Very good for both beginning and summarizing the whole subject of the course.
