- Power Conversion - MedCalc.com
Convert to and from watts, btus, cals, ergs, ft-lbs, horsepower, kilowatt.
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- Powers of Ten - Bruce Bryson
A series of images based on the book Powers of Ten, by Philip and Phyllis Morrison and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Each picture's subject is ten times wider or narrower than the next. Images range from quarks at 10-16 meters to groups of galaxies
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- Quia! - The Learning Group
Create your own Java-enabled quizzes, home pages, and learning games to play over the Internet: enter your material into a form, select a few options, and press a button. Games have been created and are available for browsing in mathematics, as well as:
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- Quick Conversion - David Giordano
A shareware tool for Win95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP that converts several units of length, weight and capacity. Free trial version available for download.
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- Quiz Me - D. Kell and Mercer County Community College
Interactive quizzes constructed using software provided by Addison Wesley Longman Publishers. Auto-scoring, multiple choice self-tests on whole numbers (place value, operations, applications, rounding, roots and order of operations); fractions (equivalencies,
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- The Right-Angle Triangle Solver - Steve Ayers
Input two sides of a right triangle, or one of its sides and one of its angles, and this site calculates the remaining sidelengths and angles. Also, convert decimals and fractions, and imperial and metric units of measure. Requires JavaScript.
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- Savard Software
Windows shareware and freeware, including Master Converter (which converts over 580 units in more than 30 categories, with the ability to add your own units and categories) as well as a program launcher and various desktop utilities.
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- Scale Drawing Project - Diane Coates
A lesson plan: Choose a picture like a cartoon or a greeting card, etc. It is best not to choose a photograph. Decide what scale factor will enlarge your original drawing to an appropriate size for a standard size poster board (i.e. 1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 2:7
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- Shelley Walsh
Syllabi and notes for math courses from arithmetic review to beginning calculus. Download MathHelp a tutorial program with problem sets for Mac or PC, or learn how to use MathHelp to create your own tutorials. Brief Mathematics Articles present concepts
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- SI Guide - James R. Frysinger
SI (International System) measurements and quantities, with pages for: a basic starter set of units and prefixes; the unit compendium (a more complete list); the prefix compendium (a complete list); rules on usage (spelling, capitalization, spacing, plurals,
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- Slide-A-Round Math Manipulatives - Jim Franklin
These manipulatives feature movable, interchangeable slides for learning how to round whole numbers, decimals, and money; to identify equivalent fractions; to calculate elapsed time, and more. Manufactured in the U.S. of recycled plastic with steel reinforcement,
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- Taking America's Measure - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Resources on this site for children include: Metric Pyramid (a pattern that can be printed, cut out, folded, and taped in the shape of a pyramid); Metric Fast Facts for Sports; Metric in the Kitchen; All You Will Need to Know About Metric; Metric Conversion
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- Temperature Conversion Calculator - College of Chemistry, Univ. of California at Berkeley
A short explanation of temperature and the units by which it is measured, with a calculator for converting to and from Celsius, Fahrenheit, Réamur, Kelvin, and Rankine scales.
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- Things I Made From Yarn - Alan Eliasen
Futureboy's online calculators include a blackjack strategy table, a model solar system calculator (create your own model solar system of any scale), a sun locator (find current position of the sun), a historical currency converter (find out "how much
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- Timelines and Scales of Measurement - Niel Brandt
TEX, DVI, PDF, Postscript, and ASCII files: Science / Technology History Timeline; Evolutionary / Geological Timeline; Cosmological Timeline; Scales of Measurement.
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- UCALC - Daniel Corbier
Windows shareware tools to compute compound interest, convert from miles to kilometers, solve a quadratic equation, plot a 3D surface, or simply add up bills. Features include: Expression Evaluator (evaluates expressions such as "5+4*10-13"); Unit Converter;
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- Unit Conversion and Day of the Week - Stephen Phillips
Convert between units of distance, area, volume, mass, speed, temperature, pressure, energy, power, or force online, or find the day of the week for a given date. There is also a list of conversion factors for various units, including units of radiation,
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- Unit Conversions, Unit Cancellation - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A selection of answers to questions about unit conversions and cancellations, from "Convert: 3.25 cm to millimeters...." to "If you can run 100 meters in 10 seconds, how long, in days, hours, and minutes, does it take you to run 12,800,000 meters?"
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- UnitMath - Paul M. Price
A calculation utility program for Mac or Windows, designed to answer questions written as equations made up of numbers, units (a unit is a quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same type can be stated), precision, and operators.
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- Unit Measurement Conversion - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
Which statement is NOT correct? 96 cups = 6 gallons; 9 days = 216 hours; 84 ounces = 7 pounds; 2 miles = 10,560 feet. A detailed answer is provided. From NASA's 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test.
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- The Units of Measure C++ Library - Keith Nicewarner
The purpose of this library is to try to make it more difficult to make
coding mistakes that incorrectly mix units of measure. This is done with a
set of C++ classes that provide type-safe manipulation of units of measure
for various properties.
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- Units of Measurement for Ada - Dmitry A. Kazakov
Public domain software for dealing with physical measurement units. The library provides physically correct unit arithmetic and tools for input and output of units, which including support of various irregular units. As an illustrative example a platform-independent
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- Units of Measurement - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
Which object is matched with its appropriate unit of measurement? Milligrams for the weight of a textbook; Kilometers for the length of a sailboat; Grams for the weight of a needle; Kiloliters for the capacity of a reservoir. A detailed answer is provided.
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- UnitWiz
An online calculator converts units of length, area, density, energy, force, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, or volume.
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- The Universal Currency Converter - Xenon Laboratories Incorporated
An interactive currency table. Versions are available in English, Spanish, and Swedish. The Universal Currency Converter™ allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet. Type the amount of source currency in the input
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- U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. - Don Hillger; Colorado State University
A national non-profit organization that advocates U.S. conversion to the International System of Units, which goes by the abbreviation SI, also called the modern metric system. The process of changing our system of units to the metric system is called
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- WebMath: Instant Solutions to Math Problems
Instant solutions to math problems: look over the various links on the home page until you find a topic that seems to describe the math problem you're working on. Select a link then another and you will be presented with a blank form into which you can
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- Weights and Measures - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
A virtual museum exhibit examining the role of the United States government in the development and standardization of weights and measures, in eight sections: America before standard weights and measures; Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler; The Office of Weights
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- What In The World Would You Have? - Ric Cooley; SCORE Mathematics
Students use the Internet to calculate rates of exchange from U.S. currency to other countries, learning to understand conversion techniques. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE
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- You Already Use Metric - Jim Loy
Cases where the metric system is already in use in the United States.
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- Zeros and Blackbirds - Francie Caraker; SCORE Mathematics
Do you yearn to be high in the sky and far far away? This math lesson allows students to convert kilometers to miles and calculate the range that historical aircraft can travel. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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