ISCI 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pseudoscience, Metric System, Sky Blue
23 Jan 2017
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Qualities or attributes that are usually peculiar to an object. Usually determine with your senses: referent. Think of a given property in terms of another. Comparing a property to a well-defined and agreed-upon referent: unit. Compare referent to unit to property being described. Following a procedure, or operation, which species how the comparison is made. Counting how many standard units describe the property being considered: value. Measurement systems: specifies how much or of what , standard unit. Metric system is used everywhere except the u. s: english system. Originally based on part of the body: metric system. Based on referents in nature: international system of units. Standard units for the metric system: volume. Length x width x height: area. Length, mass, time, and charge: length. Defined in terms of the distance that light travels in a vacuum (1/299,792,458 sec) Only standard unit that is still defined in terms of an object. Weight is the force of gravity on an object: time.
