03 - Significant Figures Rules (Sig Fig Rules) for Calculations in Chemistry & Physics

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    In this lesson, learn how to properly count significant figures in calculations for physics and chemistry. We discuss the decimal point, leading and trailing zeros, and scientific notation for significant figures (sig fig) rules.

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    According to the rule that trailing zero after a decimal point are counted, can you explain how in 23:49 how that number could be anything else other then 3 S.D? Because, 100 is 3 S.D and, if it were to be 0.000100 it will still be 3 S.D. Unless you mean if there could be more trailing zeros at the end of 100, Which would make sense. Thanks for all your help I've never been good at chemistry or even math at that matter and trying to relearn and you're really helping me out!

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  • @richardserlin1317
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    Yeah, FWIW, it seems like that is the central intuition. For a number like 702, if you are confident in the precision of that 2, then you are certainly even more confident in the precision of the zero, and consider that significant. Because with the 2 you’re measuring a precision of how many ones; with zero you’re measuring precision of how many tens. Bigger things are much easier to measure precisely, so if you are confident you can measure the smaller thing quite precisely, then you would certainly be confident that you can measure the bigger thing quite precisely, and even more precisely.

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