I. Measurement of Length
A) Original system- English System (King’s foot)
1) Issues: Availability and inconsistency
B) Metric system- Made by the French in 1789 after the French Revolution, when there was no king
1) Used the circumference of the earth, using Egyptian’s signs
2) 1 meter = distance (d)/ 10,000,000
3) Created a bar which equaled 1 Meter
(a) Constant and available BUT wasn’t precise
C) Measured (d) more carefully
D) 1960- used wavelengths of light to measure 1 meter = 1,600,000
E) 1970- measured a meter by the distance it took light to travel 3 hundred millionth of a second
II. Measurement of Time
A) Cesium atom must measure 1 billion times to equal a second
B) An atomic clock is an extremely precise way of measuring time. It measures the vibrations of the cesium atom
III. Measurement of Mass
A) 1 kg= chunk of metal in Washington D.C.
IV. Characteristics of Measurement
A) Accuracy- describes how well the results of an experiment agree with the......

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