Pretend that you move the decimal -5 places (to the right) which gives you 1.4 and then however many places you move it raise 10 to the power of it. So this gives you and answer of 1.4 × 10^-5.
0.000014 to scientific notation is 1.4 x 10^-5, you can put a real number into scientific notation by doing the following: N*10^a, N is a number between 1 and 10, while a is the exponent. You move the decimal point of a number until it can be considered to be between either one or ten, next recrod how many places you moved as the exponent.
