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What is Engineering Notation?

What is Engineering Notation?. Jimmie Fouts Houston County Career Academy. Engineering Notation Is. Easy to understand! Used extensively in engineering and science! Interpreted directly from many calculators! Important to your study of electronics!. Review of Scientific Notation.

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What is Engineering Notation?

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  1. What is Engineering Notation? Jimmie Fouts Houston County Career Academy

  2. Engineering Notation Is • Easy to understand! • Used extensively in engineering and science! • Interpreted directly from many calculators! • Important to your study of electronics!

  3. Review of Scientific Notation • The exponent (power of 10) can be any integer (whole number) • Examples include: -4, -2, 4, 7

  4. Engineering Notation • Actually a form of scientific notation • Requires the exponent to be a multiple of 3 • Examples include: -6, -3, 6, 9 • The most commonly used exponents are assigned metric prefixes

  5. The Metric Prefixes

  6. Example • Bill is 1.9 meters in height • To express Bill’s height in millimeters, we would make multiply 1.9 by 1000 = 1900 mm

  7. Example 2 • A common power line voltage for electric distribution is 23,000 volts. • This is equivalent to 23 kilovolts (kv) or 0.023 megavolts (Mv)

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