Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Measurements
- Analogue and Digital Meters
- Analogue meters
- Displays readings by deflection of a pointer over continuous scale
- Readings are estimated when pointer lies between divisions of scale
- Digital meters
- Display readings as digits which change one at a time
- No interpretation needed because values are in display
- Advantages
- Errors of parallax and shadowing are eliminated
- Not sensitive to movement, analogue meters are
- Measuring Distance
- measured using a ruler
- measurements can be made to an accuracy of 1mm (0.5mm at each end)
- it's best to measure from the 1cm mark, remembering to subtract 1 cm from final reading
- Measuring the Thickness of a Page of a Book
- 1. Measure the thickness of the book (excluding the cover) with a ruler
- 2. Count the total no. of sheets. Each sheets has 2 pages, so divide the total no. of pages by 2
- 3. Count the no. of unnumbered sheets at the front and back of the book. Add this no. to the total no. of numbered sheets
- 4. Divide thickness of book by total no. of sheets to calculate thickness of 1 page