1. METRIC CONVERSIONS

2. OBJECTIVES Precision VS Accuracy Rounding Numbers Significant Figures
Scientific Notation
Metric Conversions
Factor Label Method
Temperature Conversions

3. METRIC SYSTEM What everyone else in the world uses.
Based on multiples of 10.
Called the “International System of Units” or SI for short.

4. Who uses it?
Not Metric ; Liberia, Burma and the United States (black)

5. Metric System
The United States is the only industrialized country that does not use the metric system as its official system of measurement, although the metric system has been officially sanctioned for use here since 1866.

6. Measurement in Chemistry
Length Mass Volume Time
meter gram Liter second
Km=1000m Kg=1000g KL=1000L 1min=60sec
100cm=1m 1000mg=1 g 1000mL=1L 60min=1hr
1000mm=1m
SI System
Foot pound gallon second
British
12in=1ft 16oz=1 lb 4qt=1gal (same)
3ft=1yd 2000 lb=1 ton 2pts=1qt
5280ft=1mile

7. Metric to Metric Conversion
VIDEO

8. King Henry Doesn’t Usually Drink Chocolate Milk
1,000 Kilo
Hecto
Deka
UNIT
Deci
Centi
Milli

9. Do Practice Problems http://sciencespot.net/Media/metriccnvsn2.pdf
Wksht / answers