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Physics A | 1.1 Assignment: Powers of Ten Lab Directions : Use the following website: Secret Worlds: The Universe Within. Scientists look at things in very particular ways using sophisticated equipment, everyday instruments, and unlikely tools. Some things that scientists want to see are so small that they need a magnifying glass, or a microscope. Other things are so far way that they need a powerful telescope in order to see them. It is important to understand and be able to compare the size of things we are studying. Exponential notation is a way scientists write very large or very small numbers. For example, when the Earth is seen at 10 +6 meters wide, this number represents 1,000,000 meters. When a nucleus of a cell is seen at 10 -6 meters wide, this number represents one millionth of a meter, or 0.000001 meters. Notice how each picture in this simulation is an image of something that is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one before or after it. The number on the right is the size of what is seen in the picture. The number on the left is the same number written in powers of ten, or exponential notation . In this simulation, you will first view the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in single order of magnitudes until you reach an oak tree just outside the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. Then begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into the microscopic world through leaf cell walls, cell nucleus, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. You will then manually reverse the direction, moving from smallest to largest value, as you log your power of ten journey. Activity : Log your "Power of Ten" journey into the universe by completing this table describing your journey. Hopefully, you will be able to appreciate the powers of ten used in exponential notation and learn a few metric prefixes along the way. Start small and manually move to the larger Exponential values. Have a safe journey!
Power of Ten Description Location 10 -15 1 femtometer Face to face with a single proton 10 -14 10 femtometers nucleus of the carbon atom 10 -13 100 femtometers nucleus viewed beneath the electron shells 10 -12 1 picometer empty space between inner shell and nucleus 10 -11 10 picometers electron in the inner electron shell 10 -10 100 picometers outer electron cloud of a carbon atom © Copyright 2020 Michigan Virtual Revised 6/20/2020 Page 1
10 -9 1 nanometer DNA nucleotide building blocks 10 -8 10 nanometers Individual DNA stands 10 -7 100 nanometers chromatin in the leaf cell nucleus 10 -6 1 micrometer the nucleus of a leaf cell 10 -5 10 micrometers individual leaf cell 10 -4 100 micrometers cells on the leaf surface 10 -3 1 millimeter surface of an Oak leaf magnified 100 times 10 -2 10 millimeters surface of an Oak leaf magnified 10 times
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