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What is the difference between accuracy and precision and which is most important to scientific measurement?
Both accuracy and precision are important to scientific measurement. I'll try to explain the difference with a couple of illustrations. I should start by saying, sometimes the words are used interchangeably but they shouldn't be. I consider precision to mean resolution. That is how fine/small a reading you can get.Assume an electronic thermometer (digital display) can display answers to the nearest one hundredth of a degree. But, the thermometer isn't able to measure with that accurately. Maybe it's only accurate to the nearest whole degree. In this case the precision is greater than is supported by the accuracy of the device.Now take the opposite case where the thermometer is able to measure temperature accurately to one hundredth of a degree but the instrument can only display whole degrees. In this case the precision does not support the accuracy.Ideally the accuracy and precision of an instrument are the same but often that's not the case.
How do you tell how hot or cold something is?
use a thermometer.We can feel how hot or cold something is. However, sometimes things are just too hot or cold for us to feel safely. At other times we need to know exactly how hot or cold something is. When we need to measure temperature correctly we need to use an instrument called a thermometer. This measures temperature in degrees Celsius [sometimes called centigrade] or degrees Fahrenheit. There are different types of thermometers for different situations. A medical thermometer, for example, needs to be very accurate. It measures in fractions of degrees. When we are ill, even tiny changes in temperature are important. Some thermometers use a liquid that moves up a very fine glass tube. Most room thermometers, and outdoor thermometers are like this. The liquid is either mercury [ which is poisonous] or coloured alcohol. As liquids get warmer they expand [get bigger], and move up the tube. Water expands too, but not as much as alcohol and mercury. Thermometers that might be used by small children are not made of glass. They use a digital display which lights up the temperature. Inside the displays are chemicals that change colour according to the temperature.
What instrument measures how hot or cold something is?
A thermometer is an instrument that measures cold and heat, together with temperature variations.
Who is the inventor thermometer?
thermometer
What is precision measure?
Precision measurement is that which has maximum uncertainity
A thermometer measures temperature to the nearest 0.5 and degC. Which measurement shows an appropriate level of precision for the thermometer?
the answer is 16.0 °C
Desirable properities in a mercury thermometer?
The two properties you would want in a mercury thermometer are accuracy and precision. Accuracy is important because you want to know that it is recording the right temperature, and precision is important because it allows you to know the exact temperature to the extent of the gradations of that thermometer. Cherry flavor would be nice too! :)
What two items are in a thermometer?
A precision capillary tube with a graduated scale and a liquid such as mercury or alcohol that will expand as the temp increases.
How does accuracy differ from precision in a scientific measurement?
A thermometer says the temperature is 34 degrees ceentigrade. The divisions are so close you could only decide it is 34 rather than 33 or 35. So its precision is one degree. If the specification for that thermometer is plus or minus 3 degrees then you only really know it is between 31 and 37. If its precision is plus or minus one degree you know it is between 33 and 35.
What is the difference between accuracy and precision and which is most important to scientific measurement?
Both accuracy and precision are important to scientific measurement. I'll try to explain the difference with a couple of illustrations. I should start by saying, sometimes the words are used interchangeably but they shouldn't be. I consider precision to mean resolution. That is how fine/small a reading you can get.Assume an electronic thermometer (digital display) can display answers to the nearest one hundredth of a degree. But, the thermometer isn't able to measure with that accurately. Maybe it's only accurate to the nearest whole degree. In this case the precision is greater than is supported by the accuracy of the device.Now take the opposite case where the thermometer is able to measure temperature accurately to one hundredth of a degree but the instrument can only display whole degrees. In this case the precision does not support the accuracy.Ideally the accuracy and precision of an instrument are the same but often that's not the case.
How do you tell how hot or cold something is?
use a thermometer.We can feel how hot or cold something is. However, sometimes things are just too hot or cold for us to feel safely. At other times we need to know exactly how hot or cold something is. When we need to measure temperature correctly we need to use an instrument called a thermometer. This measures temperature in degrees Celsius [sometimes called centigrade] or degrees Fahrenheit. There are different types of thermometers for different situations. A medical thermometer, for example, needs to be very accurate. It measures in fractions of degrees. When we are ill, even tiny changes in temperature are important. Some thermometers use a liquid that moves up a very fine glass tube. Most room thermometers, and outdoor thermometers are like this. The liquid is either mercury [ which is poisonous] or coloured alcohol. As liquids get warmer they expand [get bigger], and move up the tube. Water expands too, but not as much as alcohol and mercury. Thermometers that might be used by small children are not made of glass. They use a digital display which lights up the temperature. Inside the displays are chemicals that change colour according to the temperature.
The gauge of how exact a measurement is?
Tolerance but if you are doing this dumb wordwise thing for physical science it is really Precision and to help you guys out the answers are physics accuracy precision slope thermometer technology model science scientific law observation also the hidden word it hypothesis and it is a proposed answer to a question hope you guys get a hundred!!!
What are the types of thermometer?
Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin.
Origin of the word thermometer?
Thermometer
What instrument measures hot or cold air?
a thermometer
How can you measure a body temperature?
What kind of thermometer you use to measure the body temperature
A device used to display the temperature?
a thermometer thermometer a thermometer
