Humans have a need to quantify things. And sometimes the usual measurements — feet, meters, grams — are not good enough. Or funny enough. Sometimes you need to express things in bananas, Helens, or ...

Electrical or electronic quantities and units are crucial values to know in evaluating and describing the behavior, characteristics and physical properties of a circuit. This quiz can help you recall ...

You may use these measurement units in your daily life, but do you know about the scientists they're named after? One of the biggest honors a scientist can receive is to become the namesake of a unit ...

Meters, kilograms, degrees Celsius. To most Americans, these units of measurement are little more than funny inconveniences on trips abroad. To scientists, they’re the very standards that allow for ...

Here’s a handy chart of the units of measure we use all the time for electronic quantities. Note that the unit itself is lower case, the person it is named for is, of course, cap/lower case, and the ...

The sunflower is 214 cm tall. Calculate the height of the sunflower in metres and millimetres. There are 100 centimetres in a metre. Metres are larger than centimetres so the number of centimetres ...