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Understanding Measurement: Accuracy & Precision

This document discusses measurement, accuracy, and precision in scientific experiments. It defines measurement as having both a number and unit, accuracy as how close a measurement is to the true value, and precision as how close repeated measurements are to each other. It provides examples of evaluating accuracy by comparing to a standard value and evaluating precision by comparing repeated measurements. The document also covers converting numbers to scientific notation and using a scientific calculator for these conversions.

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Understanding Measurement: Accuracy & Precision

This document discusses measurement, accuracy, and precision in scientific experiments. It defines measurement as having both a number and unit, accuracy as how close a measurement is to the true value, and precision as how close repeated measurements are to each other. It provides examples of evaluating accuracy by comparing to a standard value and evaluating precision by comparing repeated measurements. The document also covers converting numbers to scientific notation and using a scientific calculator for these conversions.

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Measurement: A quantity that has both a number and a unit.

Accuracy: A measure of how close a measurement comes to the actual or true value.

Precision: A measure of how close a series of measurements are to one another.

Evaluating Accuracy: Compare measurements to correct value

Evaluating Precision: Compare the values of 2 or more repeated measurements.


Work #57 on pg 96

Accepted value = correct value based on a reliable reference (like the Periodic Table). Experimental value = value measured in lab. Error = experimental value accepted value

Percent error = l Error l x 100 Accepted value (look at pg 65!)

Work problem in Fig 3.3 pg 65

We use very large and very small numbers in science


The mass of an atom is 0.000000000000000000000327 g In scientific notation this is 3.27 x 10-22 A gram of Hydrogen contains 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms In scientific notation this is 6.02 x 1023

First part: Coefficient


Must be 1 and <10

Second part: Power of 10


It is a whole number and >0 if the number is greater than 1 and < 0 if the number is less than 1. 100 = 1

Write 0.0578 in scientific notation


5.78 x 10-2
Write 33,947 in scientific notation 3.3947 x 104 Remember: A number less than 1 must have a negative exponent!

Type in the coefficient Find the EE, EXP, or x10n key Type in the power of 10.

Dont multiply by 10! Use the key listed above thats on your calculator!

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