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Any quantity that is measured has units.
Suppose that an employer wants to hire you for the same job you are doing now but offers to pay you 100,000 per year. Will you take the job?
Units are essential in science and everything else in life. It was failure to properly convert units that led to a multimillion dollar crash of a Mars orbiter in 1999.
Three of the seven base SI units are: 1. mass; 2. distance; 3. time.
In fact, in astronomy, we are principally interested in questions of mass, distance, and time. And using distance and time, we also want to know speed (which is distance / time).
For example, we want to know things like:
All of the above questions are answered with units of mass, distance, time, or speed (distance / time).
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Semester: Fall Spring Summer
Year: 2015
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