This assignment is my own work and I did really well in all my assignments for this subjects. After my first 3 years of studying through UNISA i have 28/30 distinctions.
, Question 1
1.1. Clock and an hour glass
1.2. A cubit is a unit of linear measure used by many ancient and medieval
peoples. It was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the
tip of the middle finger and considered the equivalent of 6 palms or 2
spans so it was used to measure short distances.
1.3. At sea level, water boils at 100℃ . No, the boiling point at Durban and
Johannesburg are not the same because for every 150m increase in
elevation, waters boiling point is lowered by approximately 0.5℃.
1.4. They both measure the same thing, temperature.
1.5. SI (international system of units) commonly known as the metric
system, is the international standard for measurement.
1.6. Sexagesimal also known as base 60 or sexagenary is a numeral system
with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Babylonias, and is
still used in a modern form for measuring time, angles and geographic
coordinates.
1.7. 15k x 1000 000
= 1000 000 square meters in one square kilometres.
1.8. 1 inch = 2.54 cm
(multiply the length value by 2.54)
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