Significant Figures in Measurement and Calculations A successful chemistry student habitually labels all numbers‚ because the unit is important. Also of great importance is the number itself. Any number used in a calculation should contain only figures that are considered reliable; otherwise‚ time and effort are wasted. Figures that are considered reliable are called significant figures . Chemical calculations involve numbers representing actual measurements. In a measurement‚ significant figures
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HISTORY 212-2 Primary Source Analysis #2 Significant Lines for Discussion Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age‚ 1870-1890 Thorstein Veblen‚ Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) * “By a further refinement‚ wealth acquired passively by transmission from ancestors or other antecedents presently becomes even more honorific than wealth acquired by the possessor’s own effort.” Luther Standing Bear‚ excerpt from My People the Sioux (1928) * “These people cared nothing for
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Cultural Immersion Program One of the most significant experience I have ever had occurred when I was in grade 9th at Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary School. According to the signed annual cultural immersion program between the two schools‚ the North View Secondary School group(NVSS)‚ consisting of 5 teachers and 30 students‚ will travel to Vietnam to communicate with Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary School in September and the Nguyen Gia Thieu Junior High School team will travel to Singapore
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Casey Staubitser Dr. T. Wilson Research Topics in College Writing 19 September 2011 Volunteering in Costa Rica A significant event in my life‚ that has recently passed‚ was when I traveled to Costa Rica. At the end of my junior year of high school‚ I decided that I wanted to graduate a half year early and travel to do a volunteer project. After my early graduation I traveled with a volunteer group out of Europe to Costa Rica for two months. This event has taught me many
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Notes on significant figures When we use an equipment to take measurement‚ it is important to be honest when reporting a measurement‚ so that it does not appear to be more accurate than the equipment used to make the measurement allows. To achieve this‚ we can control the number of significant figures used to report the measurement. When we look at a number‚ its first significant figure is the first digit from the left‚ other than 0. E.g. - in the number 539 the first significant figure
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Significant Figures Even in this day and age with all of the equipment and technology available to us‚ whenever someone works with a numerical value that was given‚ measured‚ or calculated they can assume that it has some degree of uncertainty. There will always be some degree of uncertainty because as human beings we do not possess the skill to make exact measurements. Take for example if a group of students were performing in a lab and a step in the procedure was to measure a piece of metal.
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Significant figures are essential to science because they make the answer more precise when the tools require us to use estimation. Significant figures are the digits that contribute to the value of a number. Throughout the lab we were given instructions to measure different objects using different tools with the objective of figuring out how the amount significant figures affect the accuracy of the measurement. Firstly‚ it is important to know and understand significant figures because they make
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September 3rd‚ 2010 Significant Place: Brooklyn‚ New York Many people have a place that is very significant to them. In my opinion‚ having a significant place is a very good thing because that means that significant place has a meaning. Brooklyn‚ New York‚ is the original hometown of the majority of my family and they have a very significant background history there. Brooklyn‚ New York is a very capacious city. My favorite thing to do there is shop. When I go shopping‚ I often enjoy seeing the
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