Scientific Notation
The base for exponents used in scientific notation
What is 10?
The digits in the number that are reliable and necessary to indicate the quantity of something
What are significant figures (significant digits)?
The portion of each number you count the number of significant figures of, to determine the number of decimal places in the final answer.
The decimal portion
Determines the number of significant figures in the answer in a multiplication (or division) operation.
What is the LEAST number of significant figures in any number of the problem?
A law of classical mechanics: states every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers
What is Newton's law of Universal Gravitation?
8.8 x 102
What is the scientific notation of 880?
The number of significant figures in 0.36570
What is 5?
12.0+8.77 in the correct number of significant figures
What is 20.8?
The number of significant figures in the answer to 137.1 x 5.6 x 6.085
What is 2?
A Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center (heliocentric theory)
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
6.92400 x 105
What is the scientific notation of 692,400?
The number of significant figures in 10.00014
What is 7?
163 cm + 158 cm + 172 cm in the correct number of significant figures
What is 493cm?
1.21 x 3.0 in the correct number of significant digits
What is 3.6?
A universal constant that provides a one-to-one correspondence between any length and time.
What is c, the speed of light?
0.00425
What is the standard notation of 4.25 x 10-3
The number of significant figures in 2.00 x 104
What is 3?
4.07g + 18.330g in the correct number of significant digits
What is 22.40g?
The number of significant figures in (3.5290 x 10-4) / (11.03 x 10-6).
What is 4?
Italian physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, also called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb"
Who is Enrico Fermi?
5/16
What is the reduced form fraction with the value 3.125 x 10-1?
The number of significant figures in π?
0.068 mL - 1.01 mL + 2.4 mL in the correct number of significant digits
What is 1.5 mL?
1036 m2 / 42 m in the correct number of significant figures
What is 25m?
4.5 kg
What is the average mass of a cat?