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Updated 8/27/00 by T. WayneLast
Updated 8/27/00 by T. Wayne
Refer to the "Dimensional Analysis Fact Sheet."
1. How many inches are there in a football field?
2. How many feet are there in a mile?
3. How many yards are their in a mile?
4. How many yards are their in a soccer field?
5. How many feet are there in a furlong?
6. How many paces make up a football field?
7. How many paces make up a furlong?
8. How many fathoms is a 20 foot deep diving well?
9. Every 75 feet down a scuba diver goes makes him feel like he has had a martini.
How many fathoms is this?
10. How feet are between the first and second floor of a building (one story)?
11. How many parsecs make up a light year?
12. How many rods make up a mile?
13. How many centimeters are in a fathom?
14. How many seconds are in a year?
15. How many hours are in a fortnight?
16. The average life span a tortoise is 200 years. How many scores is this?
17. A housefly's life span is 3 days. How many minutes is this?
*18. If a person blinks their eyes once every 3 minutes on the average, then how many times do they blink their eye in a day?
19. How many grams are in a pound?
20 How many poundals are in a pound?
21. How many pounds are in a metric ton?
22. A typical locomotive weighs 40,000 tons. How many drams is this?
* 23. A typical car manufactured in 1974 weighs 4000 pounds. How many McDonald's Quarter Pounderstm is this? If the Quarter Poundertm costs $0.65 in 1974 and the car costs $6,000, then which is cheaper the car or the car's weight in Quarter Pounderstm?
*24. What is the speed of a car in feet/second that is traveling at 60 miles/hour?
*25. The space shuttle travels at 28,000 mph while orbiting the Earth. How far does the shuttle travel in feet in the blink of an eye?
*26. How much time, in seconds, passes before a beam of light, traveling at 3.00 X 108 meters/second travels one foot?
*27. A stack of ten 3.5 inch diskettes is 34 millimeters high. How many diskettes does it take to make a stack 100 yards high?
*28. A physics book is 1.5 inches thick. How many books would it take to make a stack 2 stories high?
*29. If you earned one penny every 10 seconds of your life then how many dollars would you have after 65 years?
**30. A 5.25 inch diskette spins around once every 0.200 seconds. The disk's diameter is 5.25 seconds. If you were an insect sitting on the edge of the diskette, then how fast would travel in mph?
31. A container holds 16 ounces. What is the volume of this container in inches3?
- If the container is a glass with a diameter of 2 inches, What is its height? [volume for a cylinder = p(radius)2(height)]
32. An "acre" is a measure of land that is 43,560 feet2. How many square meters is this?
- How many meters on each side of a square is this?
33. A car is traveling at 88 ft/sec. What is the car's speed in miles/hour?
34. In a crazed neighborhood they are replacing the speed limit signs that give the speed in m/s. What would the new sign say if it were to replace a 25 mph sign?
35. When the space shuttle is at its maximum orbit radius it is traveling at 28,000 mph. How many miles/second is this?
36. A tennis ball leaves a racket during a serve at 29.22 fathoms/s. During a yellow flag at an race on the Indianapolis speedway a the cars travel 82 mi/hr. A runner travels 0.125 furlong/s. Which object is traveling the fastest?
37. A swimming pool can hold 20,000 gallons of water. A pond holds 2,000,000 cm3 of water. A well holds 12,000 liters of water. Which vessel holds the most amount of water?
38. An peregrine falcon can travel at 537,600 furlong/fortnight. A race car travels at 212 ft/a. A spider can jump with a maximum velocity of 9,000,000 cm/hr. Which travels the fastest? Show numbers to support your answer.
39. A 2 liter bottle of Pepsi costs $0.99. A gallon of milk costs $1.89. A 12 ounce can of "Food Lion" cola costs $0.20. Which fluid is the cheapest per unit?
40. Which is the greatest volume; A human's 8 pints of blood, a 2 liter bottle, a gallon jug of milk, or an old car engine whose displacement is 320 in3?