Physical quantities – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Wed, 05 Oct 2022 01:56:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Order of Magnitude Estimation https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/05/11/order-of-magnitude-estimation/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/05/11/order-of-magnitude-estimation/#respond Wed, 12 May 2010 01:27:13 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/order-of-magnitude-estimation So I was wondering where I could find a list of how fast things go in terms of orders of magnitude, and I managed to find one on Wikipedia.  This will definitely help a lot in estimation calculations.  Other articles for orders of magnitude exist for other quantities like length and heat capacities.  Below are some links for some of these quantities.

Speed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(speed)

Mass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)

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