Metric units verses customary units
One finds metric units easier to convert because they only contain seven basic quantities. These include length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount of substance, and light intensity. This means that all other units are derived from the basic units. Conversions of metric units are quite easy because the other smaller or larger units of metrics are expressed using prefixes that are powers of ten (Customary & Metric Systems of Measurement, n.d). For example, one gram = 103 kilogram. Therefore, converting 15 kilograms to grams ;
15 kg x 1000 = 15000g
On the other hand, customary units are not easily defined for easy conversion. For example, One yard = 0.9144 meters, and 1 foot = 1200/3937 meters.
Therefore, 18 feet = 18 x 1200/3937 = 5.4864109728219456438912877825756 meteres
The conversion involves a lot of multiplication and division which are tedious.
Comparison of informatory sites
The two sites are:
1. http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/WEIGHTSandMEASURES/CustMetricMsmt.html
2. http://www.about.ch/various/unit_conversion.html
Similarities between the two sites
The two sites have presented information on metric units well and exhaustively. In this sense, information is presented using tables for easy understanding. Also, subtitles have been used in both sites to distinguish various categories of units, such as units of length, area, mass etc.
Differences between the two sites
http://www.about.ch/various/unit_conversion.html
1. In this site, the customary units have well been discussed with conversion units stated.
2. The author is not biased in the sense that does not indicate the better and easier units to use.
3. The author does not provide a link for a conversion calculator.
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/WEIGHTSandMEASURES/CustMetricMsmt.html
1. In this site, the customary units have been mentioned and not conversion rates stated.
2. The author is biased in presentation in the sense that the metric units are presented as better units to use.
3. The author provides a link to a conversion calculator for the units.
Metric versus U.S. units and unit conversion tables. Retrieved from
http://www.about.ch/various/unit_conversion.html
Customary & Metric Systems of Measurement. Retrieved from
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/WEIGHTSandMEASURES/C
ustMetricMsmt.html
