Measurements & Measuring Instruments

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Measurements & Measuring Instruments

DO NOW: Find the volume of the block in m³.

Multiple Choice

What was the volume calculated?

10125 m3

1.0125 m3

450 m3

0.010125 m3

The degree of exactness of a measurement. E.g. 8.43 cm is more exact than 8.4 cm.

Precision

How close a measured value is to a true value.

Accuracy

Accuracy and precision

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Accuracy vs precision

PRECISION AND ACCURACY

Multiple Choice

How close a measurement is to the accepted value is called..

Accuracy

Precision

Significant

Estimate

Multiple Choice

This bullseye demonstrates...

High Accuracy & High Precision

High Accuracy & Low Precision

Low Accuracy & High Precision

Low Accuracy & Low Precision

Multiple Choice

Which Student is the most Precise?

Alex

Shandra

Luis

TYPES OF ERRORS

Multiple Choice

Systematic errors lead to a lack of:

accuracy in the measurement.

significant digits in the measurement.

precision in the measurement.

gradation of the measuring instrument

Multiple Choice

Random errors lead to a lack of:

accuracy in the measurement.

significant digits in the measurement.

precision in the measurement.

gradation of the measuring instrument

Multiple Choice

What kind of error is Parallax error or the viewing consistently from the wrong angle for all readings?

Systematic errors

Random errors

Both systematic and random errors

Neither systematic nor random errors

Multiple Choice

Repeated measurements of a quantity can reduce the effects of

both random errors and systematic errors

neither random errors nor random errors

random errors

systematic errors

Multiple Choice

The graph shown represents the distribution of results of an experiment. These results...

Were accurate but had a systematic error

Were precise but had a systematic error

Were accurate but had a random error

Were precise but had a random error

Range

Sensitivity is related to precision.

Multiple Choice

Which is more precise?

Analogue vs digital scales

Multiple Choice

Is this an analogue or digital scale?

Digital

Analogue

None

i have no idea

Linear vs non-linear scales

For a linear scale, the scale is divided into equal parts.

In a non linear scale the distances between divisions are unequal.

Poll

Linear or non linear?

Linear

Non Linear

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