FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS - EXTENDED
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Chapter 1, Problem 50P
You receive orders to sail due east for 24.5 mi to put your salvage ship directly over a sunken pirate ship. However, when your divers probe the ocean floor at that location and find no evidence of a ship, you radio back to your source of information, only to discover that the sailing distance was supposed to be 24.5 nautical miles, not regular miles. Use the Length table in Appendix D to calculate how far horizontally you are from the pirate ship in kilometers.
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Length
cm
МЕTER
km
in.
ft
mi
1 centimeter
= 1
102
105
0.3937
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1 METER = 100
1
103
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6.214 x 104
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1000
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1 inch =2.540
2.540 x 102 2..540 × 105 1
8.333 x 102 1.578 × 105
1 foot = 30.48
0.3048
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1.894 x 10*
1 mile = 1.609 x 105 1609
1.609
6.336 x 104 5280
1
1 angström =
10-10
1 fermi = 1015 m
1 fathom = 6 ft
1 rod = 16.5 ft
m
1 nautical mile = 1852 m 1 light-vear = 9.461 × 1012 km 1 Bohr radius = 5.292 x 101" m
1 mil = 10* in.
= 1.151 miles = 6076 ft
1 parsec =…
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