Friday September 2 nd 2016 Accuracy vs Precision Accuracy how close a measurement is to the actual value Precision how close a group of measurements are to each other Look at each target below and decide whether the situation is accurate precise both or neither ID: 780607
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Accuracy & Precision
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
Slide2Accuracy vs Precision –
Accuracy – how close a measurement is to the actual valuePrecision – how close a group of measurements are to each other.Look at each target below and decide whether the situation is accurate, precise, both, or neither:
(note-it is “accepted” that the bull’s eye is the place everyone aims for.)
Slide3Percent Error - how close a measured value is to its actual value (aka accuracy).
A student takes an object with an accepted (actual) mass of 200.00 grams and masses it on his own balance. He record the mass as 196.5 g. What is his percent error?% error =
|200.00g
– 195.6 g|/ 200.00 g x 100 =2.2%
Slide4How accurate do you need to be....+/- 10%
Slide5Practice ProblemsAn experimental measurement was taken of 10.4 mL and the actual measurement was 9.7 mL. What is the percent error?
Joe measured the volume of an object five times and got results of 34.5 mL, 34.9 mL, 34.2 mL, 33.4 mL, and 35.9 mL. The actual volume of the object was 34.1 mL. What was the percent error of his average result?A student measured the temperature of boiling water and got 97.5°C. What was her percent error?