CHEM 1201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Chemical Compound, Intensive And Extensive Properties, Trailing Zero

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Observed only when a substance changes to another substance. Relating to the amount of the substance: ex: mass and volume, changes in matter, physical change- a substance changes in physical appearance but not its composition. Ex: evaporation of water: chemical change- a substance is transformed into a chemically different substance. Ex: when hydrogen burns in air: chemical reactions, separating mixtures, filtration- selective reaction to make solid, distillation- selective boiling and condensations. Alcohol, petroleum, etc: chromatography-selective interaction between phases. Uncertainty in measurement: precision and accuracy, precise= low error, accurate= correct value, significant figures, uncertainty in the last digit: 3. 74. 3 significant digits: express as plus/minus: 3. 74 +/- 0. 03, rules: Zero between other digits is significant: 1005 kg. Trailing zeros after decimal are significant: 4. 00 k. Trailing/no decimal- can"t tell: 5200 j: use scientific notations :5. 20 x 103j, addition and subtraction. Line up and chop off excess sig figs: multiplication and division. Look at the left most digit to be removed.

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