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Teaching Significant Figures Using Age Conversions
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In this classroom activity the instructor provides increasingly precise values of the age in years of a famous person to have students calculate the age in days. An accurate age is readily determined using Julian dates. The activity provides a student-friendly, equipment-free entry to a discussion of estimated measurements, significant figures, exact numbers, rounding, and conversion factors.
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A. D. JordanJournal of Chemical Education2007 84 (9), 1459Which Method Is Most Precise; Which Is Most Accurate?
A. D. JordanJournal of Chemical Education2007 84 (9), 1459A simple experiment, the determination of the density of a liquid by several methods, is presented. Since the concept of density is a familiar one, the experiment is suitable for the introductory laboratory period of a first- or second-year course in ...
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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