Ch 6.1-6.3 Engineer Measurments And Estimations Flashcards

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Accuracy

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Measurement of nearness of a value to the correct or true value

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Lord Kelvin believed knowledge and understanding were not of high quality unless…

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The info could be expressed in numbers

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Precision

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The repeatability of measurement

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Sig figs give us an idea of…

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How “good” numbers are without calculating percent error

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