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| errors made due to the limited ability to read a measuring instrument |
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| errors that can be due to reading errors, carelessness, or unavoidable changes made in doing repeated measurements |
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| errors associated with particular measuring instruments or bias on the part of the observer, measurements usually spread about a value rather than being about the true/accepted value |
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| the study of matter and energy and how it explains the origin and transformation of the universe |
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| the amount of material in an object |
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| a property of matter that resists any change in its motion |
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| a body's resistance to a change in motion, use an inertial balance |
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| ratio between the mass of an object and its volume |
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| ratio of weight of an object to its volume |
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| energy stored within a system |
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| gravitational potential energy |
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| energy stored within a system due to an object's height above an arbitrarily chosen reference point |
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| internal potential energy |
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| the energy stored in the atoms and electrons due to their arrangement within a material |
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| law of conservation of mechanical energy |
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| in an isolated system, the total kinetic and potential energies remains constant |
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| law of conservation of energy |
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| in any energy transformation, the energy put in or used is equal to the energy output |
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| law of conservation of matter |
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| when matter is transformed from one type into another, no mass is lost |
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| represent a combination of fundamental units or are a combination of fundamental units |
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| a unit measure of a basic physical quantity such as mass, length, time |
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| fundamental unit for length |
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| fundamental unit for mass |
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| fundamental unit for time |
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| unified atomic mass units |
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| unit for mass on the atomic level, equal to 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom |
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| gravitational pull on an object |
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| fundamental unit of luminous intensity |
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| fundamental unit of electric current |
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| fundamental unit of temperature |
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| fundamental unit of amount of substance |
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| unit for weight in the MKS system |
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| the amount of space an object takes up |
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| how close your value is to the accepted value |
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| how close the measurements in a set are to each other |
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| measured as the absolute value of the accepted value minus the experimental value over the accepted value times 100 |
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| the important digits in a measurement that are known with certainty plus one more digit that has been estimated (uncertain digit) |
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| a drawing that tells you if the variables plotted are related and if they are what the relationship is |
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| the variable in an experiment that is purposely changed |
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| the variable that changes due to changes in the independent variable |
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| a measurement that has a size (magnitude) and a unit |
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| a measurement that has a size, a unit, and a direction |
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| the number of vibrations per second (in an inertial balance or other device) |
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| the number of seconds per vibration (in an inertial balance or other device) |
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