Reading:

• NASA’s metric confusion caused Mars orbiter loss
  
• Visualizing Vastness, by Steven Strogatz (New York Times)
• Powers of Ten
• StartR 3
• Learning Styles

Lessons (Asterisk indicates there is a checkpoint quiz in Moodle):

• Introduction to Units and Dimensions*: Screencast – Slides
• Operating with Dimensions*: Screencast – Slides
• Unit conversion*: Screencast – Slides
• Dimensional Analysis*: Screencast – Slides
• Dimensional Analysis and the Atomic Bomb: Screencast – Slides
• Fitting Functions to Data in R: Screencast
• Estimation and Fermi Problems*: Screencast – Slides

Practice problems:

• Dimensional analysis problems #3, 4, 7, 8
• Set #1
• Set #2
• Set #3
• Set #4
• Set #5
• Set #6
• Set #7
• Set #8
• Answer key

In-Class Activities:

• R Notes
• Dimensions and units summary chart
• Unit conversion using Google
• Energy and dimensions (key)
• The atomic bomb
• This example of why estimation is a useful skill, and this example
• Useful facts and Fermi practice