Conversions Practice

The Mars Orbiter, a $125million satellite, failed to orbit Mars.

It came too close to the planet, and was destroyed by Mars' atmosphere.

The most likely cause of this loss?

a metric/English unit conversion error.

oops.

This page is due on Thursday, 9/15 AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.

Here's a video that explains dimensional analysis, the technique we used today in class.

Please write your calculations out with full numerators, denominators and UNITS.  It might feel like it's the long way now, but it will save you hours of headache later!






Here are some other noteable Great Miscalculations