All measurement comes with some uncertainty – is it really 1.1 cm, or was it 1.2? How trustworthy is your average value? Scientists have a few ways to describe and measure the uncertainty in their data.
Pages in this section:
- Uncertainty in Measurements
- Accuracy and Precision
- Outliers in Data Sets
- Significant Figures
- Significant Figures: Rules for Rounding a Number
- Significant Figures in Adding or Subtracting
- Significant Figures in Multiplication and Division
- Significant Figures in Logarithms
- Significant Figures: Practice Questions
- Sources of Uncertainty in Measurements in the Lab