Homework 1: Unit Conversion
Convert the following quantities from their original units to the requested units. You must show
your work to receive full credit. The phrase “Go through blah or blah” means that one of your
conversion factors must include some power of the blah unit.
1. 1 million miles to cm. Go through inches.
2. 760,000 acres to square miles and to km2. Go through m or cm for the metric conversion.
If this area were a square, how long would one side be in each case?
3.
200 million gal to ft3 and m3. Go through cm for the conversion to m3.
4. 32 ft/s2 to cm/(ms)2. “ms” is millisecond.