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1. |
How tall are you in centimeters? |
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2. |
How tall are you in meters? |
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3. |
How far are you from your church in kilometers? |
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4. |
How far are you from your church in meters? |
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5. |
How far are you from your church in miles? |
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6. |
What is the circumference of the Earth in kilometers? |
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7. |
What is the circumference of the Earth in meters? |
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8. |
Consider a car that is traveling at 30 miles per hour. Convert
to meters and calculate the length of a "car minute" (This
is how far the car will travel at this speed in one minute). |
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9. |
Using the new unit of "car minutes", estimate:
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The height of the part of your house where your room is
located. (Explain how you determined the height. A drawing
might be useful, too.) |
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The length of the hallway outside your room.
How did you determine the length of the hall? |
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The distance from your neighborhoodl to your church. |
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10. |
In a vacuum (which we will consider an approximation for outer
space for this lab), light travels at 3000,000 km per second (186,000
miles per second).
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How many times faster is this than the car traveling at
60 mph? |
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How many times faster is it than an average airplane traveling
in flight (500 miles per hour)? |
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Calculate how far light tavels in one second (in meters).
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