Scientific Notation - Explained!
Scientists have to work with some very large and some very small numbers. To represent these numbers more easily, they use scientific notation. Scientific notation relies on powers of 10. This...
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In science, we often have to deal with some very large numbers. For example, the massof the sun.That is the mass of the sun. Two followed by thirty zeros in units of kilograms. Thatis two thousand billion billion billion kilograms. There has got to be a better way to writethat. Can you imagine if there wasn't? And so we find that the mass of the sun is twozero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Yes? Sorry could you repeat that? I was withyou up to two zero zero zero zero zero? Ahh? It was ahh... two zero zero. So to representlarge numbers easily, we use something called scientific notation. Scientific notation takesadvantage of powers of ten. For example, ten to the power of two means take two tens andmultiply them together. And you get 100. Ten to the ...
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In science, we often have to deal with some very large numbers. For example, the massof the sun.That is the mass of the sun. Two followed by thirty zeros in units of kilograms. Thatis two thousand billion billion billion kilograms. There has got to be a better way to writethat. Can you imagine if there wasn't? And so we find that the mass of the sun is twozero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Yes? Sorry could you repeat that? I was withyou up to two zero zero zero zero zero? Ahh? It was ahh... two zero zero. So to representlarge numbers easily, we use something called scientific notation. Scientific notation takesadvantage of powers of ten. For example, ten to the power of two means take two tens andmultiply them together. And you get 100. Ten to the ...
