Unit Conversion & The Metric System | How to Pass Chemistry

Learn some helpful tricks on how to remember the metric system, and practice what you just learned to ace your exam! This video helps you understand how to use the metric system as a conversion factor to convert units and helps you stop guessing for good!

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Unit conversion practice problems with step by step answers:

In depth "how-to-guide" on converting units:

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0:25 Conversion factor definition
0:40 How to remember the metric system
1:49 How to setup unit conversions
2:47 One conversion factor example
4:00 Two conversion factors example
5:30 Practice problems

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[melissamaribel]

Typo at 5:42 it should say 6.12 x 10^5 mg

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^how I remember the metric system

[monicalynne]

I’m really good at math but unit conversion really confused me big time. Came across this video and I’ve never been so happy in my whole life. Thank you so much. You explained it so well and gave such an easy way to remember the meter system. New subbie here! 😁

[misselle]

this so helpful but i feel a bit confused. how do you get the exponents for certain ones? i think I'm confusing myself even more lol

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I’m not getting how you’re getting the answer for 612g X 1 mg / 10 ^-3?

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[luvlyjo]

On the question how many meters are in 1738 kilometers my answer that I got was 1.738x10^0 can someone tell me how they got the 6? Please and thank you!

[kenyauriarte]

honestly im so confused on how you got 6.2 and how you got the exponent as 5 i have to show my work for class but i don’t understand what you did to get that outcome

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[keepingitrealbrown]

I'm confused as to how you know each exponent matches the unit

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Wow your little rule of "put the 10^x number with the base unit and the 1 with the different unit" saved my life. I kept getting them mixed up. I Wish I had seen this before my last exam, but now I know how to ace the next one!

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