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Title: SI Metric System of Measurement


1
Forging new generations of engineers
2
SI Metric System
  • How is it different from the
  • English System?

3
History of the SI Metric System
  • 1670 Gobriel Mounton, receives credit for
    originating the metric system
  • 1792 Worlds first decimal currency (U.S. dollar
    consisting of 100 cents)
  • 1996 All surface temperature observations in
    National Weather Service are now transmitted in
    degrees Celsius
  • Project (2000) Stock Exchanges change to decimal

4
Metric to English Conversions
  • METRIC
  • 1 Meter
  • 1 Centimeter
  • 1 Millimeter
  • 1 Decimeter
  • 1 Kilometer
  • 1.609 km
  • ENGLISH
  • 3.28 feet
  • .393 inch
  • .0393 inch
  • 3.937 inch
  • 3280.83 feet
  • 1 Mile

5
More English to Metric Conversions
6
Prefixes
7
The Metric System
m meter mm millimeter cm centimeter km
kilometer g - gram mg milligram kg kilogram
l - liter ml - millimeter m2 - square meter m3 -
cubic meter km2 - square kilometer t - metric
ton ha - hectare
8
Metric System - Length
9
Metric System - Mass
10
Metric System - Area
11
Metric System - Volume
12
Special Relationships
13
Conversion Table
14
Visual Comparisons
15
SI Symbols Review
  • m ?
  • mm ?
  • cm ?
  • km ?

16
SI Review
  • What Does SI stand for ?
  • Is this system fraction or decimal based ?
  • Who is Gabriel Mouton ?
  • How many cm in 1 inch ?
  • How many mm 1 cm ?
  • How many cm 1 m ?
  • How many meters 1 km ?
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