Units of measurement by country

Greek units of measurement

A number of units of measurement were used in Greece to measure length, mass, area, and capacity. In Greece, the metric system has been used since 1836 and was made compulsory in 1922. (Wikipedia).

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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

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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)

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Examples: Converting Between Metric Units

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

From playlist Unit Conversions: Metric Units

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

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From playlist Applications of Measurement

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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

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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

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More Standard Deviation and Variance

Further explanations and examples of standard deviation and variance

From playlist Unit 1: Descriptive Statistics

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Lecture 3

Chemistry 1P Professor Eric Potma Department of Chemistry University of California, Irvine

From playlist Chem 1P: Studio Version

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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

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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

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Relativity 2 - finding the (special) theory

A largely graphical derivation of the space-time transformations of Special Relativity. Relativity playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF56602BAC693237E

From playlist Relativity

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QRM 10-1: The Greeks for Market Risk

Lesson 10 is devoted to the model building approach to market risk. To use such an approach, we need some basic tools from financial mathematics and basic risk management, an example being the Greeks and duration (which nevertheless is linked to the Greeks). For those of you who are not fa

From playlist Quantitative Risk Management

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Relativity 8 - the yardstick of spacetime

The final piece of the puzzle falls in place. Herman Minkowski showed that Special Relativity defines a spacetime invariant - the "proper time" - between two events. Einstein's insight into the equivalence between falling and floating allowed him to realize that this also applied to Genera

From playlist Relativity

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Momentum Does Not Have a Unit of Measurement - So Let's Make One! (Surprisingly Tricky)

Must we always write kg m/s? Why isn't there a more snappy unit of measurement for momentum? Hi everyone, I'm back with another video - this time discussing metrology! Metrology is the "science of measurement" and metrologists are the ones who decide what units of measurement we get to us

From playlist Classical Physics by Parth G

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The History of the Metric System - The Kilogram

In 1790, amidst the fires, violence, and decapitations of the French revolution, The Marquis of Condorcet and his four science bros revolutionize the world. Hi there! This is Barris, a French – American that lived most of his life in France and is passionate about learning, exploring, hi

From playlist Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

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Level 1 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA ®): Measures of dispersion including volatility

Session 2, Reading 8 (Part 2): A previous video in this CFA playlist looked at classic measures of central tendency. This is also called the first moment of the distribution or the distributions the location where is the distribution centered. When we say that I think most of us think of t

From playlist Level 1 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA ®) Volume 1

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Crash Course Trigonometry 2: Angle Measure

In this second video of my Crash Course Trigonometry series, I talk about the different ways of measuring angles. I discuss revolutions, degrees, and radians. I also go through some practice problems where I convert between these different systems of measurement.

From playlist Crash Course Trigonometry

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8.2 Angular Velocity and Angular Acceleration

This video covers Section 8.2 of Cutnell & Johnson Physics 10e, by David Young and Shane Stadler, published by John Wiley and Sons. The lecture is part of the course General Physics - Life Sciences I and II, taught by Dr. Boyd F. Edwards at Utah State University. This video was produced

From playlist Lecture 8A. Rotational Kinematics

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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

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Angular motion variables | Moments, torque, and angular momentum | Physics | Khan Academy

In this video David explains the meaning of angular displacement, angular velocity, and angular acceleration. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/torque-angular-momentum/rotational-kinematics/v/relating-angular-and-regular-motion-variables?utm_source=YT&utm_

From playlist Torque and angular momentum | Physics | Khan Academy

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