Ancient Greek units of measurement

What is a metre: from Fizzics.org

The international base unit of length, accepted as the world wide standard, but where did it come from, who decided and how exactly is it defined.

From playlist Units of measurement

Parsecs, astronomical units and light years, distance units explained: fizzics.org

Notes to support this video lesson are here: https://www.fizzics.org/measuring-distance-in-astronomy/ Astronomical units , the parsec and the light year are different units commonly used to measure distances in astronomy. Where they come from and how they relate to our basic units of measu

From playlist Astronomy - physics of measuring distance

Examples: Converting Between Metric Units

This video provides several examples of converting between different metric units of measure.

From playlist Unit Conversions: Metric Units

Physical Science 2.3b - The Unit for Force

Units of measurement for force in the metric and the English system.

From playlist Physical Science Chapter 2 (Complete chapter)

Ex: Metric Conversions Using Unit Fractions - Length

This video provides three examples of how to perform metric conversions involving length using unit fractions. Site: http://mathispower4u.com Blog: http://mathispower4u.wordpress.com

From playlist Unit Conversions: Metric Units

Metric Units of Measurement (1 of 3: Overview of various metric units)

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From playlist Applications of Measurement

Metric Unit Conversion

This video explains how to convert to different metric units of measure for length, capacity, and mass. http://mathispower4u.wordpress.com/

From playlist Unit Conversions: Metric Units

Quest for an International Standard Measure: The History of Metrication

The History Guy looks at weights, measures and the history of metrication. The two-hundred-year quest for an international standard measure is history that deserves to be remembered. The History Guy uses images that are in the Public Domain. As photos of actual events are sometimes not a

From playlist History without War

American Unit Conversion

This video explains how to convert between different American or Standard unit of measure for length, capacity, and weight. http://mathispower4u.wordpress.com/

From playlist Unit Conversions: American or Standard Units

Distances: Crash Course Astronomy #25

How do astronomers make sense of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early astronomy. Ancient Greeks were able to find the size of the Earth and from that the distance to and the sizes of the Moon and Sun. Once the Ea

From playlist Astronomy

Episode 9: Early History - Project MATHEMATICS!

Episode 9. Early History of Mathematics: This video traces some of the landmark developments in the early history of mathematics, from Babylonian calendars on clay tablets produced 5000 years ago, to the introduction of calculus in the seventeenth century. A Program Guide and Workbook is

From playlist Courses and Series

More Standard Deviation and Variance

Further explanations and examples of standard deviation and variance

From playlist Unit 1: Descriptive Statistics

HISTORY OF IDEAS - Ancient Greece

We know we’re meant to think that Ancient Greece was a cradle of civilisation; but what exactly did the Greeks contribute to humanity? Here is a list of some of their greatest and most relevant achievements. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.thes

From playlist GREAT IDEAS

"Dreams of Other Worlds" Chapter 7

We're reading "Dreams of Other Worlds," a book about the history of unmanned space travel by Chris Impey and Holly Henry on our Twitch channel! Every week on Monday at 10am PST we read another chapter on our TeachAstronomy Twitch channel and archive them here for anyone who misses it. Enjo

From playlist Dreams of Other Worlds Book Read

A Child Prodigy in Ancient Rome - Kathleen Coleman with Angelos Chaniotis

https://www.ias.edu/events/ideas-2017-18 More videos on http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Ideas 2017-18

Glasses: A Brief History of Vision Correction

The quest for perfect vision has a long history, and numerous advancements were required to provide the range of products and services that today help millions of people keep the world in focus. The history of vision correction deserves to be remembered. This is original content based on

From playlist History without War

The Story of Trigonometry: Revolutions in the Heavens, and on the Earth - Glen Van Brummelen

More videos on http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Friends of the Institute

A Brief History of Soap

While humans have known about soap since antiquity, its use has ebbed and flowed with the times. From ancient Babylon to modern bathrooms, History Guy recalls the forgotten story of soap. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefu

From playlist Medicine and History

The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Robin Wilson - The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps The entire history of mathematics in one hour, as illustrated by around 300 postage stamps featuring mathematics and mathematicians from across the world. From Euclid to Euler, from Pythagoras to

From playlist Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Physics CH 0.5: Standard Units (5 of 41) Standard Units in Mechanics

Visit http://ilectureonline.com for more math and science lectures! In this video I will explain and derive standard units in mechanics of area, volume, force, pressure, work, power, momentum, impulse. Next video in this series can be found at: https://youtu.be/FNs_-Z1gHxU

From playlist Michel van Biezen: Physics Mechanics 1: Introduction, Standard Units, and Vectors