Chapter 1.7 – The Reliability of a Measurement – Flashcards

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what are significant figures?
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o   the non-place-holding digits

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what are exact numbers?
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o   no uncertainty, no limit to the number of significant figures in any calculation

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what is accuracy?
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o   how close the measured value is to the actual value

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what is precision?
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o   how close a series of measurements are to one another or how reproducible they are

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what is random error?
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o   equal probability of being too high or too low

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what is a systemmatic error
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– error that tends to be either too high or too low

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