🔍 Key Concepts

• Metric prefixes and their powers of ten • Relative size of pico compared to milli (m) and micro (µ) • How capacitance values like farads, microfarads, and picofarads compare in size

💭 Think About

• Start from a prefix you know well, like milli or micro, and recall their powers of ten. Then think: is pico bigger or smaller than those? • Order these prefixes from largest unit to smallest: milli, micro, nano, pico. How many powers of ten separate each step? • In electronics, typical large capacitors are in microfarads (µF). Picofarad (pF) capacitors are much smaller. How many powers of ten smaller is a picofarad than a microfarad?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify the correct power of ten for milli (m) and micro (µ) first, then continue smaller by factors of 10⁻³ each step if needed • Check that the factor you choose makes pico significantly smaller than micro and nano • Before choosing, write out the power of ten as a full number (like 0.000000000001) to confirm whether it represents a thousandth, millionth, billionth, or trillionth