Tuesday 3 July 2012

Standard Form

Multitude of sizes



Secret Worlds: The Universe Within


View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.


Index Notation and The Powers of 10



sources:
wikipedia
http://www.contracosta.edu
Powers of Ten™ (1977)



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