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Houston Community College: Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Figures
Learn about the topics of accuracy, precision, and significant figures in this section of a physics textbook. Chapter can also be downloaded in pdf.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Rounding and Significant Figures: Audio Book
This audio book, narrated by author Mark Bishop, describes how to determine significant figures in chemical calculations. Many examples are given to help figure out how to round the answers. Also find links to tutorials and power points...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Significant Figures/accuracy
This StudyCards stack enables students to review definitions and the rules for rounding numbers and using significant figures.
University of California
University of Calilfornia: Significant Figures Ii
This site from the University of California provides a lengthy and intelligent discussion of sig figs, absolute and relative precision, accuracy, precision in calculations, rounding off, and the whole shooting match of how we report what...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Significant Figures: Lesson 2
This lesson should help a learner understand how to determine the amount of significant figures in a number and the uses of significant figures. It is 2 of 6 in the series titled "Introduction to Significant Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Significant Figures: Lesson 1
This lesson should help a learner understand how to determine the amount of significant figures in a number and the uses of significant figures. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Introduction to Significant Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multiplying W/ Significant Figures: Lesson 1
This lesson should help a learner understand how to determine the appropriate amount of significant figures when multiplying numbers. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Multiplying w/ Significant Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice Determining Significant Figures: Lesson 4
This lesson should provide examples of how to deal with significant figures when dealing with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Practice Determining Significant Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice Determining Significant Figures: Lesson 1
This lesson should provide examples of how to deal with significant figures when dealing with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Practice Determining Significant Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adding W/ Significant Figures: Lesson 4
This lesson should help a learner understand how to determine the appropriate amount of significant figures when adding numbers. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Adding w/ Significant Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Dividing W/ Significant Figures: Lesson 2
This lesson should help a learner understand how to determine the appropriate amount of significant figures when dividing numbers. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Dividing w/ Significant Figures."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Dividing W/ Significant Figures: Lesson 4
This lesson should help a learner understand how to determine the appropriate amount of significant figures when dividing numbers. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Dividing w/ Significant Figures."
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Significant Digits
This site defines and describes significant digits along with examples. Includes references, citations, and links to further information.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Significant Figures
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn how to define significant figures, how to change measurements into scientific notation and how to add, subtract and multiply with significant figures.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement and Recording Data
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this tutorial, students will learn about measurement, significant digits, and their use in scientific notation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Introduction to Physics: Problems & Exercises
This site provides a list of physics problems and exercises including Physical Quantities and Units, Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Figures, and Approximation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Language of Physics: Physical Quantities and Units
By the end of this section, you will be able to associate physical quantities with their International System of Units (SI) and perform conversions among SI units using scientific notation; relate measurement uncertainty to significant...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Uncertainty in Measurements
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online lesson students will learn to distinguish between accuracy and precision in measurements and to also calculate the percent error of a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Mole Conversions
This tutorial reviews over lots of concepts including dimensional analysis, scientific notation, significant figures, and mole conversions.
Other
Easyphysics: Chapter 1 Basic Skills
The resource examines the basic math skills needed for studying physics. Some topics include units, scientific notation, significant digits, and trigonometry. Example problems, graphs, and a chapter quiz are included.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Problems on Scientific Notation
Scientific notation is reviewed through these problems that include solutions. Concepts covered are converting, division, multiplication, and significant digits.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Science Tools App
In this activity, you will explore the Science Tools App by using the "Significant Figures" feature and the "Vector Calculator".
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Allegory
This is a glossary entry for the term "Allegory" including multiple definitions for the term, links to other figures of speech, links to more information, and examples.
Chemistry Collective
Chem Collective: Determining the Concentration of an Unknown Solution
Using the Virtual Laboratory design, students perform an experiment to determine the concentration of the unknown HCl solution to four significant figures.