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| The digits in the measurement up to and including the first uncertain digit |
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| An eqaul probability to be too high or too low when an experimenter approximates a reading. |
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| Systematic errors occur as a result of poor experimental design or procedure, but these errors do not decrease by repeating the experiments. |
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| have small random errors and reproducible in repeated trials |
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| have small systematic errors and give a result close to the accepted value |
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| absolute uncertainty/measured value |
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| (absolute uncertainty/measured value)x100 |
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| [(accepted value - experimental value) / accepte value]x100 |
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| Variable that does not change, which plotted in the horizontal axis of the graph |
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| Variable that changes which is plotted on the vertical axis and gives an indication of the reliability of the measurement |
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| A line that has to be extended beyond the range of masurements on the graph |
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| The process of assuming that the trend line applies between two points |
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