{"id":1006,"date":"2008-02-29T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T00:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2020-01-21T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:11:08","slug":"friday-math-movie-powers-of-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-powers-of-10-1006","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - Powers of 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a movie that will challenge your view of where you fit in the scheme of things.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0fKBhvDjuy0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Video is a great way to get a sense of scale when talking about powers of 10.<\/p>\n<p>For example, they start with a view that is around 1 m wide, then zoom out to view a 10 m (= 10<sup>1<\/sup>) wide square, then 100 m (= 10<sup>2<\/sup>) and so on, ending up with a view of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>They then go in the other direction, going smaller and smaller: 1\/10 m (= 10<sup>&minus;1<\/sup>), 0.01 m (= 10<sup>&minus;2<\/sup>) and so on, passing through cells, viruses, and down to the atomic level.<\/p>\n<p>The video was made by IBM in 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-powers-of-10-1006#comments\" id=\"comms\">3 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-powers-of-10-1006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/106a.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" alt=\"World 10^6 - powers of 10 and scientific notation\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>This movie is a good demonstration of powers of 10 and scientific notation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}