Powers of Ten

This video, produced by Pyramid Media, gives a graphic introduction to orders of magnitude, and shows the use of exponential notation. You can see a description of the video here. If you would prefer to play the video on a computer, you can do this via this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 (This video may contain advertisements.)

The jacket description is below:

Powers of Ten/by Charles and Ray Eames/Time: 9 minutes/Audience: Junior high through adult/Subjects: Physics, mathematics, astronomy, general science/Synopsis: POWERS OF TEN is an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports you out to the edges of the universe and to the micro-world of cells, molecules and atoms. It is a careful picture of the universe as we currently know it, according to the best available evidence and scientific explanation./Changes in size, distance and time are as follows:/The Journey Out/10^3m -- As far as a racing car moves in ten seconds/10^4 m -- As far as a jet plane moves in ten seconds/10^5 m -- As far as an orbiting satellite moves in ten seconds/10^7 m -- From which the whole earth can be viewed/10^9 m -- From which the orbit of the moon can be viewed/10^12 m -- From which the orbits of our sun's planets can be viewed/10^16 m -- One light year away/10^20 m - From which the swirl of our galaxy becomes visible/10^24 m -- More than 100 million light years away (the view approaches becoming a void)/The Negative Powers/10^-4 m: The layers of the skin can be seen./10^-5 m: Blood cells come into view./10^-7 m: The DNA moleculres appear./10^-12 m: The carbon nucleus appears/10^-14 m: A single neutron in the nucleus of a carbon atom can be seen.