Investigate Your Ecological Footprint 1. Describe at least one part of the experimental procedure that you thought was
essential to getting good results. Did you find that certain steps in the
procedure had to be followed carefully in order to get consistent results? If you
wanted better results, do you think there is a step that could have been added
to the procedure?
2. Discuss your thoughts on the overall lab design. Did it help you understand the
concepts better, or did it raise more questions? Do you think you could have
designed a better experiment? If so, explain how and then discuss it with your
classmates. Share some of your knowledge with them or learn a little more
about this experiment you just did.

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most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).