Practice With Familiar Units Conversion Worksheet With Answers

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PRACTICE WITH FAMILIAR UNITS
The following worksheet will give you practice with unit conversion, or how to
express one piece of information in different ways. A unit is a form of
measurement, like inches, seconds, or gallons. HINT: The larger the unit, the
smaller the number and vice versa. For example; 1 pound = 16 ounces (pounds are
"large" units and ounces are "small" units).
A: Basic Units:
1) What is your height in inches? __________
2) The distance from Washington DC to the Idaho National Engineering
Laboratory (INEL) is approximately 126,720,000 inches. How many feet is this?
______ How many miles? __________
3) A typical core in a pressurized water reactor weighs 80 metric tons. How many
pounds is this? __________
4) The first test of an atomic weapon was on July 16, 1945. The first atomic bomb
was dropped on August 6, 1945. Approximately how many minutes elapsed
between the two events? _________
B: These unit conversions are similar to the ones that you just did,
with real life examples and an emphasis on plutonium!
5) Suppose the width of a plutonium pit is about 8 centimeters in diameter. What
is its width in inches? __________
6) As of 1990, the N-Reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington
state had produced about 60.5 metric tons of plutonium. How many kilograms is
that? __________
7) The mass of a plutonium pit is about 3.5 kilograms. Convert that to grams.
__________
8) INEL has a tank that can hold 300,000 gallons of high-level liquid waste. How
much can this tank hold in liters? __________
C: More unit conversions.....Same concept as above, but now with
units of radiation. (Visit our
Unit Conversion Classroom
Resource)
9) 1 curie, in becquerels __________

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