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Notes on video lecture:
Order of Magnitude in the Sciences
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 28, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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fundamentally, human, billion, exponential, dimensions, micron, magnitude, temporal, benchmark, kilometer, bodies, zeros, chemical, universe
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the concept of scale
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a common hurdle in understanding the                 
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two dimensions
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spatial
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how large or how small is something
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how long ago or how far in the future something is
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how to do handle the broad scales that we have to deal with for these two                     
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realize that when studying the world and our universe, spatial and temporal scales are vast
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we are used to understand most things in our lives as how big they are in relation to our human             
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a tree is three times as high as someone
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a child is half the size of an adult
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the average diameter of a bacteria is one             
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one millionth of a meter
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we have the same time with temporal measurements
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we usually measure things in relation to the length of a            life
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cells divide within seconds
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                 reactions are a fraction of a second
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the age of the earth, 4.7                years
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consider a critical conceptual                   
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is something 10 times larger or 10 times smaller
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is something 100 times larger or 100 times smaller
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something that is twice as big as something is interesting, but something that is ten times as big as something else is                            different
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we can put objects in the universe into a ten by ten basis
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                       notation
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how many            come after a number
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if something that is 1000 times larger than something else is 3 powers of ten greater
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when something is 2 times the power of 10 smaller, it is 100 times smaller
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one power of ten is one order of                   
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average child is one meter tall
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how does the fit into the measurement of a                    high mountain
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the mountain is 3 powers of 10 larger than the child, or 3 orders of magnitude larger
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