Metric Scale Comparison
This is bigger: The distance from here to your house, the distance from here to Chicago
What is the distance from here to Chicago?
2000 m = _______km
What is 2?
This is the highest possible mass of an object measured to be 123 +/- 0.123g
What is 123.123g
You measure Cole five times, and get 6'5" everytime. This describes your measurements
What is precise but not accurate?
This is the axis the indepdent variable always goes on
What is the x axis
This is smaller - 5.6g, or 560mg
What is 560mg?
1234 kg = _________ cg
What is 123,400,000 cg
Mr. Kohls says describing experimental error as just this term isn't specific enough
What is human error?
If you had stopped the stopwatch too early during the pendulum lab, your average period would be affected in this way
What is it would be too short?
A graph with a slope of around zero represents this type of relationship
What is constant?
This is bigger: 400,000 cm or 4.0km
What is they are actually the same?
2 decameters = _____ decimeters
What is 200
This type of error can effect accuracy without effecting precision
What is systematic error or bias?
This is why we take multiple measurements of the same scenarios in labs
What is to reduce error from random change?
A square root relationship y = sqrt(x) can also be written as this
what is y=x0.5