
Significant Figures and Scientific Notation note sheets and home work
... When making a measurement, it is obvious that the accuracy of your number is always limited by the equipment used or by the sheer size of the number involved. For example, we are taught that the distance to the sun is 93 million miles. That’s good enough for our purposes, but we do know that the dis ...
... When making a measurement, it is obvious that the accuracy of your number is always limited by the equipment used or by the sheer size of the number involved. For example, we are taught that the distance to the sun is 93 million miles. That’s good enough for our purposes, but we do know that the dis ...