Exercise Answers: Module 16

Other Conversions

We will generally round these answers to three significant figures; your answer may be slightly different depending on which conversion ratio you used.

$525,600$ min
this is roughly $31.7$ years, which is indeed possible
$37.6$ km/hr
$23.3$ mi/hr
$1,770$ mi/hr
$29.5$ mi in $1$ min
$20.3$ min
$0.17$ mi/gal
$5.8$ gal/mi
$171$ gal in $1$ min
the capacity increased by a factor of $14.4$
$4$ times greater
$1,200$ megawatts per home
$1$ watt per gallon
$2,500$ times more powerful
$0.4$ ms, $0.04$ ms, $0.004$ ms; $400$ μs, $40$ μs, $4$ μs
the ratio of the wavelengths of red and infrared is $7$ to $100$ ;
the ratio of the wavelengths of infrared and red is around $14$ to $1$
this is equivalent to $2,500$ chest x-rays

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