Whenever we are measuring anything it is important that we know what units we are dealing with. In calculations we generally want to make sure that all the units are the same before we start the calculation.

Thankfully, with the metric systems their is a certain consistency between the way units are named.

Example

Let’s try converting between some different units (we don’t need to do them all!):

Exercise

Let’s try exercise 5A on page 71 of the textbook:

The answers are below: