Homework 1

Remember, homeworks are graded, so you must do your own work. If you do not follow this policy, you will be given a failing grade in the course, and risk college disciplinary action.

Assignment: Exercises 1.1 - 1.45.

Write your answers out on paper, and hand it in on the due date.

For Exercise 1.45 your answer should be given in milliseconds (ms). Remember that the rotation time is the reciprocal of the rotation rate. You will be doing calculations like this throughout the course, so you should memorize the table below. (Well, maybe not the details of the right-hand column ...)

Units of Measure

  Power Decimal Value
Prefix Decimal Binary Decimal Binary
Tera 12 40 1,000,000,000,000 1,099,511,627,776
Giga 9 30 1,000,000,000 1,073,741,824
Mega 6 20 1,000,000 1,048,576
Kilo 3 10 1,000 1,024
Milli -3   0.001  
Micro -6   0.000,001  
Nano -9   0.000,000,001  
Pico -12   0.000,000,000,001