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what is precision

A

upon making repeated measurements, how close the measured values are to each other

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What is accuracy?

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how close the measured value is to the true value

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Which are you improving when you calibrate an instrument?

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accuracy

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Significant digits are used for what kind of values?

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measured

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What types of numbers do you disregard the sig digs?

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counting
conversion factors
constants

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SI unit for mass

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kilogram kg

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what does second measure

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time

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What does m represent and measure

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meter

length

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si temperature?

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kelvin

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9
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difference between metric and SI

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kilogram vs. gram

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difference between mass and weight?

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weight is a force that measures the pull of gravity on a given mass
mass is a measure of the amount of matter that an object contains

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How to convert celsius and kelvin?

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K=C + 273

C=K-273

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Unit to measure the volume of a solid

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centimeter cubed

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13
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units to measure the volume of a liquid

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mL

L

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14
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conversion factor for volume

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1 cm cubed
___________
1mL

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15
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Anything divided by itself equals

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1

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16
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What are the equations for density?

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d=m/v
m=dv
v=m/d

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what is density

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the ratio of the mass of an object to its volume

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18
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What kind of property is density and why?

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intensive - depends on composition not size

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19
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What happens to the density of a material if the temperature goes up?

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density generally decreases

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what is a measurement

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a quantity that has both a number and a unit

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21
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Why is it important to make correct measurements?

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measurements are fundamental to experimental sciences

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22
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what happens in scientific notation

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a given number is written as the product of two numbers: a coefficient and 10 raised to a power

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What must happen to evaluate the accuracy of a measurement

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the measured value must be compared to the correct value

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what must happen to evaluate precision

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you must compare the values of two or more repeated measurements

25
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what is the accepted value

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the correct value based on reliable references

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what is the experimental value

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the value measured in the lab

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what is error

A

the difference between the experimental value and the accepted value

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formula for error

A

experimental value - accepted value

29
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what is percent error

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the absolute value of the error divided by the accepted value multiplied by 100%

30
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percent error equation

A

I error I
——– X100
accepted value

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what are significant figures

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all of the digits that are known, plus a last digit that is estimated

32
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why must measurements always be reported to the correct number of significant digits?

A

calculated answers often depend on the number of significant figures in the values used in the calculation

33
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In general, a calculated answer cannot be __________ than the least precise measurement from which it was calculated

A

more precise

34
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5 common SI units

A 
meter
kilogram
kelvin
second
mole
35
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SI for amount of substance

A

mole

36
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SI for luminous intensity

A

candela

37
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SI for electric current

A

ampere

38
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mole abbreviation

A

mol

39
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candela abbreviation

A

cd

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ampere abbreviation

A

A

41
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what is volume

A

the space occupied by any sample of matter

42
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what is temperature

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a measure of how cold or hot an object is

43
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what happens with heat

A

it travels to the lower temperature area

44
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kelvin freezing and boiling points

A

273.15 and 373.15

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what is absolute zero

A

zero on Kelvin

46
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what is energy

A

the capacity to do work or to produce heat

47
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what are common units of energy

A

joule and calorie

48
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which is si for energy

A

joule

49
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what exactly is a calorie

A

amount of heat it takes to raise the temperature of 1g of pure water by 1 degree C

50
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conversion factor joules to calories

A

1 J = 0.2390 cal

1 cal = 4.184 joules

51
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what is a conversion factor

A

a ratio of equivalent measurements

52
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measurements in a conversion factor….

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the numerator is equal to the denominator

53
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when a measurement is multiplied by a conversion factor,

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the numerical value generally changes, but the actual size remains the same

54
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what is dimensional analysis

A

a way to analyze and solve problems using the units, or dimensions, of the measurements

55
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what are easily solved using dimensional analysis

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problems in which a measurement with one unit is converted to an equivalent measurement with another unit

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