SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

PHYSICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A useful method of expressing very small or very large number is ____
A
Arabic numerals
B
Greek letters
C
significant figures
D
scientific notation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or very small numbers. A number is written in scientific notation when a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10. For example, 650, 000, 000 can be written in scientific notation as 6.5 ✕ 10^8.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scientific notation is simply a way of writing numbers. It is especially useful in expressing very large or very small numbers because it is shorter and more efficient and it shows magnitude very easily. Every real number can be written as a product of two parts: a decimal part times an integer power of ten.

Detailed explanation-3: -How to do Scientific Notation? When expressing small numbers in scientific notation, we use negative exponents for the base of 10. For example, 0.00002 = 2 x 10-5, where-5 is the negative exponent.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scientific notation follows a very specific format in which a number is expressed as the product of a number greater than or equal to one and less than ten, and a power of 10. The format is written a×10n a × 10 n, where 1≤a<10 1 ≤ a < 10 and n is an integer.

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