significant digits. other ways of saying it… significant digits significant figures sigfigs...
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Significant Digits
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Other ways of saying it…
• Significant Digits• Significant Figures• Sigfigs• Sigdigs
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The problem…
• Numbers are perfect and exact• Measurements are neither perfect nor exact• Accuracy = closeness to correct value– Accuracy itself is not a number, but a description
• Precision = how close multiple measurements came to one another– Precision can also describe the number of sigfigs
• The precision of an answer is not the same as the accuracy of an answer.
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Precision vs. Accuracy
Accurate, but not precise
Precise, but not accurate
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Precision vs. Accuracy
Accurate and precise
Neither accurate nor precise
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Numerical example:
• Let’s say a table has a correct height of 0.68215 m
• 4 groups measure the table several times…– 0.7 m, 0.6 m, 0.7 m– 0.91521 m, 0.91525 m, 0.91528 m– 0.6822 m, 0.6821 m, 0.6822 m– 2 m, 3 m, 1 m
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How ALL measurements are to be made
• Read your measurements to all known values plus one estimated value
• Check your understanding
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P Aresent
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Counting Significant Digits in somebody else’s measurement
• If decimal point is Present– Count all digits from left to right starting with first
nonzero number• If decimal point is Absent– Count all digits from right to left starting with first
nonzero number
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P Aresent
bsent
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Count the significant digits
• 0.000275– 3 digits
• 1.0052– 5 digits
• 270– 2 digit
• 25300– 3 digits
P A
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Typical Example of using and following significant digits through a calculation
• Read the measurement from the BOTTOM of the meniscus• lazy answer: 21 mL• better answer: 20.6 mL• best answer: 20.65 mL
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• Density is mass divided by volume. The mass of 20.65 mL of acetone is measured to be 16.3 g. Calculate the density of acetone.
• But our calculation cannot be more precise than our measurements. (Round to ___ digits)
• D = 0.789 g/mL
mL
g
mL
g
V
mD 789346247.0
65.20
3.16
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Adding with significant digits
• Add these masses: 0.265 g, 0.1820 g, 12.05 g• 00.265 g• 00.1820 g• 12.05 g• ============• 12.497 g• (but the least precise measurement forces us to
round to the hundredths place)• 12.50 g
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Calculating error and percent error
• Density of lead is measured to be 10.9 g/cm3.• Actual, accept, or correct value of the density
of lead is 11.34 g/cm3.• Error = experimental value – accepted value
%100_
_% valueaccepted
errorerror
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error 334.0)34.119.10(cm
g
cm
gerror
%434.11
4.0_%
3
3
cmgcmg
error
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Summary• When making a measurement, report all known numbers,
plus one estimated digit.• Counting significant digits with a decimal point left to right• Counting significant digits without a decimal point right to left• Multiplying or dividing with sigfigs, your result has no more
sigfigs than the number with the least sigfigs in the problem.• Adding or subtracting with sigfigs, your answer has no more
decimal places than the number with the fewest decimal places in the problem.
• Error = exp. value – measured value• % error = absolute value of error divided by accepted value *
100.