Name:
Date:
Section:
Honors Physics II
Dimensional Analysis
Quiz Details
Two-Part Quiz
Study Guide
Quiz Info:
- August 28 (Friday)
- You will take Part 1. When you finish Part 1, you can hand it in to take Part 2.
- Part 1 will require you to remember the metric unit conversions in order to do one
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step conversions. Once you move on to Part 2, you cannot go back.
Part 2 will give you many of the conversions and require you to use them for multistep dimensional analysis.
Show your work! If you don’t include all of the required work, you will not get
full credit for the question.
This quiz will not include the scientific method or area/volume conversions.
Part 1 Details:
- You should be able to take to fill in a table for metric prefixes (like the one on the
back), explain how they relate, and convert between them.
Part 2 Details:
- In Part 2, you will be given many unit conversions. I expect you to remember how to
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move between time units (seconds, minutes, hours, and days), as those will not be
provided.
You should be able to do multi-step dimensional analysis to convert values and
rates. You must show your work, even if you are able to do the problem in your
head.
Name:
Date:
Section:
Honors Physics II
Dimensional Analysis
Quiz Details
In order to practice, complete Part 1 and Part 2’s samples on a separate piece of paper.
Part 1 Sample
1. Fill in the following chart. The unit prefixes should get larger as
you go up the chart and small as you go down the chart.
2. Based on your chart, how many centimeters are in a meter? ________
BASE UNIT
3. Based on your chart, how many meters are in a kilometer? ________
4. Convert 12 meters to dekameters.
5. Convert 2 centimeters to millimeters.
——————————Part 2 Sample
Metric:
1000 millimeters = 1 meter
100 centimeters = 1 meter
10 decimeters = 1 meter
10 meters = 1 dekameter
100 meters = 1 hectometer
1000 meters = 1 kilometer
English:
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
5280 feet = 1 mile
Metric-English:
1 inch = 2.54 centimeters
Using the unit conversions to the left, show your work and
answer the following problems.
1.
I have 4.2 feet of rope. How many yards do I have?
2.
I have 43 inches. How many dekameters do I have?
3.
I run 0.25 miles. How many hectometers did I run?
4.
I drove at 15 miles per hour. How fast was I going in
meters per second?
5.
I walk at 1 yard per second. How many miles per day
am I walking?