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hayleyl

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hi I need help with unit conversion I have no idea what I am doing:confused: SO could some one help me with the conversions we may need to no?
Thankyou :)
 

davidbarnes

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What sort of units are you tying to convert? E.g millimetres to kilometres, or what, etc?
 

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You've got to know all the basic stuff.
1 km = 1000 m
1 m = 100 cm
1 cm = 10 mm
and so on.

The tricky stuff comes when converting volumes to capacities. Probably best to memorise these:
1 m3 = 1 kL
1 cm3 = 1 mL
and work it out from there.

Also, there's these from the Spherical Geometry:
1 nm = 1.852 km
1 hour = 15
1 knot = 1 nm/h
and so on.
 

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Thank you thats exactly what I needed to know! :)
 

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