Real life examples of Scientific Notation by Santhosh Senthil https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm By Terence Tao group en-us 2014-05-04 16:42:05 UTC 2016-03-23 15:28:44 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d262le4z25sx36.cloudfront.net/portraits/sticky.jpg Irshad :-                                                                                                                                                                                                   Approximate speed of light is 1080 million km per hour or 1,080,000,000 km per hour = 1.08 . 10^9                   Length of the shortest wavelength of visible light is 0.0000004 meter = 4 . 10^-7    santhoshsenthil https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27279831 2014-05-05 13:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27279831 Sidharth :-                                                                                                                                                                                   Distance from the Earth to the sun is 93 million miles or 93,000,000 miles = 9.3 . 10^7                                     Diameter of a grain of sand is 0.0024 inch = 2.4 . 10^-3     santhoshsenthil https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280234 2014-05-05 14:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280234 Shivdeth:-                                                                                                                                                                                           Distance light travels in a year is exactly 9,460,528,400,000,000 km = 9.4605284 . 10^15                                 Density of oxygen is 0.001332 g per cc = 1.332 . 10^-3          santhoshsenthil https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280405 2014-05-05 14:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280405 Jeahoash:-                                                                                                                                                                                               Distance from the sun to the nearest star is 39,900,000,000,000 km = 3.99 . 10^13                                                   The average thickness of a regular copy paper ranges from 0.05 to 0.10 millimetres = 5 . 10^-2 to 1 . 10 ^-1 santhoshsenthil https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280710 2014-05-05 14:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280710 Santhosh :-                                                                                                                                                                                         Population of the world is around 7 billion written out as 7,000,000,000 = 7 . 10^9                                                 Mass of a dust particle is 0.000000000753 kg = 7.53 . 10^-10                                                                                             santhoshsenthil https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280995 2014-05-05 14:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27280995 Umar:-                                                                                                                                                                                                    Distance from the Earth to the moon is 240 thousand miles or 240,000 miles = 2 .4 . 10^5                                     Mass of an electron is 0.00000000000000000000000000000091093822 kg  = 9.1093822 . 10^-31 santhoshsenthil https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27282814 2014-05-05 14:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/santhoshsenthil/StandardForm/wish/27282814