Introductory Material
The goal of physics is to provide an understanding of the physical world by developing theories based on experiments.
Upon completion of this chapter, you should be able to:
Upon completion of this chapter, you should be able to:
- distinguish standard units and system of units.
- describe the SI and specify the references for the three main base quantities of this system.
- use common metric prefixes and nonstandard metric units.
- explain the advantage of and apply dimensional analysis and unit analysis.
- explain conversion‐factor relationships and apply them in converting units within a system or from one system of units to another.
- determine the number of significant figures in a numerical value and report the proper number of significant figures after performing simple calculations.
- establish a problem‐solving procedure and apply it to typical problems.