twizzlers Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 (edited) Are we supposed to maintain significant figures when presenting raw data or is that only in calculations? Because readings for different measurement thingies (time vs. distance) have different degrees of uncertainty... Edited October 13, 2011 by twizzlers Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessskris Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 isn't this very confusing?when presenting your collected data, the number of decimal place must be the same with the uncertainty.for + and - calculations, the number of decimal place must follow the original datafor x and / calculations, the number of sig fig must follow the lowest number of sf of the original data.all the %age uncertainty must be in 1 sf. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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