The International System of Units (SI), commonly known as the metric system, is the international standard for measurement. The SI plays an essential role in international commerce and is commonly used in scientific and technological research and development. This cache is part of the SI geoart that allows you to learn about the SI units. Visit the introduction cache to learn more about this geoart.
Area: square metre (m2)
The square metre is the SI derived unit of area.
Adding and subtracting SI prefixes creates multiples and submultiples; however, as the unit is exponentiated, the quantities grow geometrically by the corresponding power of 10. For example, one kilometre equals 1000 metres, but one square kilometre equals 1000000 square metres, not 1000 square metres.
Pressure: pascal (Pa)
The pascal is the SI derived unit of pressure. One pascal is the pressure exerted by a force of magnitude one newton perpendicularly upon an area of one square metre.
SI prefix hecto-
is commonly used with pascals, especially by meteorologists. One hectopascal (hPa) equals 100 pascals. A standard atmosphere is 1013.25 hPa, which is often used as a reference pressure.
This Geocache
In which city is GCRC4X located? Take the land area of this city in square kilometres, round down to an integer to get ABC.
251390 humans of 70 kg average mass are standing on the land of the above city. Assuming the gravity is 9.80665 m/s2, how much pressure is exerted on the land in millipascals? Round it to an integer to get DEF.
Final coordinates: N 39° 08.ABC W 077° 08.DEF
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Lists of Caches in SI geoart
- introduction
- second and hertz
- metre
- kilogram
- m/s and km/h
- mole
- radian and steradian
- m/s² and newton
- m² and pascal
- joule and watt
- ampere and coulomb
- volt and farad
- ohm
- kelvin
- candela, lumen, and lux
- bushel
- foreword & afterword
- prize distribution