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Rates and Unit Conversions

Speed in km/h, drips in mL/min, pay in dollars per hour - rates compare different units, and converting between them is the skill that stops a physics answer being wrong by a factor of 3.6. This is the real knowscape from knowhere, not a picture of one. Drag it. Watch what actually changes.

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the one idea

why this one carries the topic.

Every question here is the same move: something you can't measure directly, reached through something you can. The triangle, the bearing, the scale plan, the recapture sample — each is a bridge from a length you can reach to one you can't. Measurement is indirect measurement.

Rates express one quantity per unit of another, and converting units requires changing both numerator and denominator separately, like converting 72 km/h to 20 m/s by dividing distance units by 1000 and time units by 3600.

what examiners catch — Students forget to convert both parts of a rate when changing units, commonly multiplying speed in km/h by 1000 instead of dividing by 3.6 to get m/s, or failing to convert hours to minutes when calculating drip rates.
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what's underneath

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this conceptrates and unit conversionsRates express one quantity per unit of another, and converting units requires changing both numerator and denominator separately, like converting 72 km/h to 20 m/s by dividing distance units by 1000 and time units by 3600.
the rest of measurement

4 more, same treatment.

Each one is its own knowscape in the app — built for how a particular student takes things in, not one explanation handed to everybody.

practical ratio problems and capture-recapturelive →bearings, elevation and compass radial surveyslive →similarity, scale drawings and plansin the apppythagoras theorem and trigonometric ratiosin the app
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