click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter Three: Tools
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Metric system | A system of measurement based on the number 10 |
| International system of units | a system of units used by scientist to measure the properties of matter |
| Mass | A measure of how much matter is in an object |
| Weight | A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object |
| Volume | The amount of space that matter occupies |
| meniscus | The curved upper surface of a liquid in a column of liquid |
| Density | The measurement of how much mass of a substance is contained in a given volume |
| Estimate | An approximate of a number based on reasonable assumptions |
| Accuracy | How close a measurement is to the true or accepted value |
| Precision | How close a group of measurements are to eachother |
| Significant figures | All the digits in a measurement that have been measured exactly plus one digit whose value has been estimated |
| Percent error | A calculation used to determine how accurate or close to the true value an experimental value really is |
| mean | The numerical average of a set of data |
| median | The middle number in a set of data |
| mode | The number that appears most often in a list of numbers |
| range | The difference between the greatest value and the least value in a set of data |
| anomalous data | Data that do not fit with rest of data set |
| graph | A picture of information from a data table shows the relationship between variables |
| linear graph | A line graph in which the data points yield a straight line |
| nonlinear graph | A line graph in which the data points do not fall along a straight line |