Problem 1P Problem 2P: A gry is an old English measure for length, defined as 1/10 of a line, where line is another old... Problem 3P: The micrometer 1 m is often called the micron. a How many microns make up 1.0 km? b What fraction of... Problem 4P: Spacing in this book was generally done in units of points and picas: 12 points = 1 pica, and 6... Problem 5P: SM WWW Horses are to race over a certain English meadow for a distance of 4.0 furlongs. What is the... Problem 6P: You can easily convert common units and measures electronically, but you still should be able to use... Problem 7P: ILW Hydraulic engineers in the United States often use, as a unit of volume of water, the acre-foot,... Problem 8P: GO Harvard Bridge, which connects MIT with its fraternities across the Charles River, has a length... Problem 9P: Antarctica is roughly semicircular, with a radius of 2000 km Fig. 1-5. The average thickness of its... Problem 10P: Until 1883, every city and town in the United States kept its own local time. Today, travelers reset... Problem 11P: wor about 10 years after the French Revolution, the French government attempted to base measures of... Problem 12P: The fastest growing plant on record is a Hesperoyucca whipplei that grew 3.7 m in 14 days. What was... Problem 13P: GO Three digital clocks A, B, and C run at different rates and do not have simultaneous readings of... Problem 14P: A lecture period 50 mm is close to 1 microcentury. a How long is a microcentury in minutes? b Using... Problem 15P: A fortnight is a charming English measure of time equal to 2.0 weeks the word is a contraction of... Problem 16P Problem 17P: SSM Five clocks are being tested in a laboratory. Exactly at noon, as determined by the WWV time... Problem 18P: Because Earths rotation is gradually slowing, the length of each day increases: The day at the end... Problem 19P: Suppose that, while lying on a beach near the equator watching the Sun set over a calm ocean, you... Problem 20P: GO The record for the largest glass bottle was set in 1992 by a team in Millville, New Jerseythey... Problem 21P: Earth has mass of 5.98 1024 kg. The average mass of the atoms that make up Earth is 40 u. How many... Problem 22P: Gold, which has a density of 19.32 g/cm3, is the most ductile mental and can be pressed into a long... Problem 23P Problem 24P: GO Grains of fine California beach sand are approximately spheres with an average radius of 50 m and... Problem 25P: During heavy rain, a section of a mountainside measuring 2.5 km horizontally, 0.80 km up along the... Problem 26P Problem 27P Problem 28P Problem 29P: On a spending spree in Malaysia, you buy an ox with a weight of 28.9 piculs in the local unit of... Problem 30P Problem 31P Problem 32P Problem 33P: SSM A ton is a measure of volume frequently used in shipping, but that use requires some care... Problem 34P: Two types of barrel units were in use in the 1920s in the United States. The apple barrel had a... Problem 35P: An old English childrens rhyme states, Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and... Problem 36P: Table 1-7 shows some old measures of liquid volume. To complete the table, what numbers to three... Problem 37P: A typical sugar cube has an edge length of 1 cm. If you had a cubical box that contained a mole of... Problem 38P: An old manuscript reveals that a landowner in the time of King Arthur held 3.00 acres of plowed land... Problem 39P: SSM A tourist purchases a car in England and ships it home to the United States. The car sticker... Problem 40P Problem 41P: SSM A cord is a volume of cut wood equal to a stack 8 ft long, 4 ft wide, and 4 ft high. How many... Problem 42P: One molecule of water H2O contains two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. A hydrogen atom has... Problem 43P: A person on a diet might lose 2.3 kg per week. Express the mass loss rate in milligrams per second,... Problem 44P: What mass of water fell on the town in Problem 7? Water has a density of 1.0 103 kg/m3 Problem 45P: a A unit of time sometimes used in microscopic physics is the shake. One shake equals 108s. Are... Problem 46P: A unit of area often used in measuring land areas is the hectare defined as 104 m2. An open-pit coal... Problem 47P: SSM An astronomical unit AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun, approximately 1.50 ... Problem 48P Problem 49P: A traditional unit of length in Japan is the ken 1 ken = 1.97 m. What are the ratios of a square... Problem 50P: You receive orders to sail due east for 24.5 mi to put your salvage ship directly over a sunken... Problem 51P: The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance between the elbow and the tip of the... Problem 52P: As a contrast between the old and the modern and between the large and the small, consider the... Problem 53P: SSM An astronomical unit AU is equal to the average distance from Earth to the Sun. about 92.9 106... Problem 54P: The description for a certain brand of house paint claims a coverage of 460 ft2/gal. a Express this... Problem 55P: Strangely, the wine for a large wedding reception is to be served in a stunning cut-glass receptacle... Problem 56P: The corn-hog ratio is a financial term used in the pig market and presumably is related to the cost... Problem 57P: You are to fix dinners for 400 people at a convention of Mexican food fans. Your recipe calls for 2... Problem 58P: A standard interior staircase has steps each with a rise height of 19 cm and a run horizontal depth... Problem 59P: In purchasing food for a political rally, you erroneously order shucked medium-size Pacific oysters... Problem 60P: An old English cookbook carries this recipe for cream of nettle soup: Boil stock of the following... format_list_bulleted