Perfect Prefixes
10-18
What is atto?
An experiment that tests only one factor at a time by using a comparison of a control group with an experimental group
What is a controlled experiment?
Used to mean the difference or change in
What is delta?
Motion and its causes
What is mechanics?
No, not the ones at pep boys
50.3m
What is "zeros between other nonzero digits are significant"?
What is 3 significant figures?
10-15
What is femto?
A description of how close a measurement is to the correct or accepted value of the quantity measured
What is Accuracy?
Sum or total
What is Sigma?
Heat and Temperature
What is Therodynamics?
0.892kg
What is 4 significant figures?
What is zeros in front of nonzero digits aren't significant?
10-12
pico
(no not de gallo)
The degree of exactness of a measurement
What is Precision?
The study of the physical world; motion, energy, light, and electricity
What is Physics?
Behavior of submicroscopic particles
What is Quantum mechanics?
57.00 g
What is 4 sig figs?
What is zeros that are at the end of a number and also to the right of the decimal are significant?
10-9
What is nano?
A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the structure or workings of an object, system, or concept
ex: Kendall Jenner & Cindy Crawford
What is a model?
System that uses base units & prefixes to describe measurements of physical qualities
What is SI?
Light
Optics
20 m
What is zeros at the end of a number but to the left of a decimal are significant if they have been measured or are the first estimated digit?
What is one significant figure?
10-2
What is centi?
A set of particles or interacting components considered to be a distinct physical entity for the purpose of a study
What is a system?
Made the first nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago in 1942
Who is Enrico Fermi?
Springs, Pendulums, and Sound
What is vibrations and wave phenomena?
Given that this way of problem solving takes place in columns, round the final answer to the first column from the left containing an estimated digit.
What is addition or subtraction?