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Quiz 1 (15 minutes/8 marks) 1. How many significant figures are in each of the following numbers? a. 4.01 b. 4.010 c. 4 d. 2.00001 e. 0.00001 f. 2.1-1.10042 g. 7.01 x 3.1415 2. Three quantities, the results of measurement, are to be added. They are 2.0600, 3.163, and 1.12. What is their sum to the correct number of significant figures? 3. What is the percent uncertainty in the measurement 3.76 0.25 m? ± 4. The highest waterfall in the world is Amgel Falls in Venezuela, with a total drop of 979.0 m. Express this drop in feet. 5. How many watts are in 1 gigawatts (GW)? a. 10 3 b. 10 6 c. 10 9 d. 10 12 e. 10 15 6. Vesna Vulovic survived the longest fall on record without a parachute when her plane exploded and she fell 6 miles, 551 yards. What is this distance in meters? 7. Express the speed limit of 95 feet/second in terms of meters/second. 8. The corners of a square lie on a circle of diameter . Each side of the square has a length L. Find L.

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Quiz 1 (15 minutes/8 marks)

1. How many significant figures are in each of the following numbers?a. 4.01b. 4.010c. 4d. 2.00001e. 0.00001f. 2.1-1.10042g. 7.01 x 3.14152. Three quantities, the results of measurement, are to be added. They are 2.0600, 3.163, and 1.12. What is their sum to the correct number of significant figures?3. What is the percent uncertainty in the measurement 3.76 0.25 m?4. The highest waterfall in the world is Amgel Falls in Venezuela, with a total drop of 979.0 m. Express this drop in feet.5. How many watts are in 1 gigawatts (GW)?a. 103b. 106c. 109d. 1012e. 1015

6. Vesna Vulovic survived the longest fall on record without a parachute when her plane exploded and she fell 6 miles, 551 yards. What is this distance in meters?7. Express the speed limit of 95 feet/second in terms of meters/second.8. The corners of a square lie on a circle of diameter . Each side of the square has a length L. Find L.