Topic 1: Math in Chemistry

Part 3: Percent Error & Percent Composition

Aim:

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?