metric system and Significant figures

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SCIENTIFIC METHOD

The study of scientific method is the attempt to discern the activities by which that success is achieved. Among the activities often identified as characteristic of science are systematic observation and experimentation, inductive and deductive reasoning, and the formation and testing of hypotheses and theories.

METRIC UNIT CONVERSION

Smaller unit to a bigger unit you divide.

Bigger unit to smaller unit you multiply.

CONVERTIONS

1000 m =1 km

1000 km = 1,000,000 m

1000 cm = 10 m

1000 m = 100,000 cm

1000 mm= 1 m

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Significant figures

Significant figures are important because they tell us how to round. The real point is to make sure that the answer you get isn't more precise than the numbers you started with.

When you get an ugly answer you look at the digits you divided or multiplied them for, you see how many digits there are and thats how many digits you leave while rounding it up.

Use the lower number when rounding up the number.

Density: Mass/Volume

82g/42cm3=1.952380952g/cm^3 82g/42cm^3=2.0g/cm^3 without significant figures with significant figures

82.103217g/42.338572cm^3=1.9123351gcm^3 rules determining if a number is significant or not: