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How Big Are Things?
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small | Real world |
big | solar system | between | galaxy | ||||||||||||||||||||
nano |
micro |
meter |
kilo |
Mega |
Giga |
Tera |
Peta |
Exa |
Visible-light wavelengths posterIn nanometer's room (1000,000x magnification), the wavelengths of visible light are this big:
Here is a 8 page document you can cut and tape together. poster_visiblewavelengths.pdf (.ps.gz)
Poster AssemblyFrom theposter man page by Jos van Eijndhoven...
Doables: History: 2002-Oct-22 Created. |
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