o ________________________ = calculates how close to the true value an experimental value is How ________________________ a measurement is ________________________________ and this formula measures how close someone is to what they expect to get _________________: Important Formulas and Equations
_____________________value = value obtained in the experiment (what you get) Accepted value = value that ______________________ in the experiment (what you should have gotten)
Working in the laboratory, a student finds the density of a piece of pure aluminum to be 2.85 g/cm 3 . The accepted value for the density of aluminum is 2.699 g/cm 3 . What is the student's percent error?
A student takes an object with an accepted mass of 200.00 grams and masses it on his own balance. He records the mass of the object as 196.5 g. What is his percent error?
What is with the negative sign??? Are we wrong??? ______ the negative sign only means that the measured results were _______________ what the accepted results were o Measuring 4g instead of 5g Answer: -20% = you measured 20% less than what you should have o What is percent composition? Represents the composition as a ___________________________ Compared with the total _________________________________ Example: There is a group of 35 students. 15 of the students are boys and the rest are girls. What percent of the students are girls?
Percent Composition formula is found on ________________
What is the percentage of hydrogen in water?
What is the percentage of oxygen in water?
What is the percentage of sodium in NaCl?
What is the percentage of oxygen in potassium chlorate?