Sunday, August 21, 2011

Tape Measure


This is a picture of a tape measure. This is an example of the unit we did because it has to do with measurement. A tape measure is used to measure things. Specifically, this one is used more so for construction, there is another type used for tailoring. It is common that there are metric units on one side and imperial or British units on the other. This applies to physics because people use it to measure the length or width of things so they are able to resize different things or see if they need to make it longer. In physics, they use the metric system to measure things. For instance, we used a meter stick to measure the string part of the pendulum for our lab and a tape measure has the same units you can measure things with.

2 comments:

  1. Whoaaaaa so @rt$y aren't you shawnie?! :p hahaha, keh sorry i couldn't help but do that....but seriously this is one cool picture, unlike mines -___-

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  2. Thank goodness for tape measures! I wonder how this world would be with out them? Very nice picture as well/

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