PHYS 101 Study Guide - Scientific Notation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Physics
• Course: PHYS 101
• Professor: Kenneth J Ragan

Document Summary

Capa tips & help for phys 101 & phys 131. Here are some common capa pitfalls and useful tips: use periods for decimals, not commas. For example, 5. 32 is a number between 5 and 6 writing it as 5,32 will be marked as incorrect in. Capa: to represent large numbers, you may use the e" notation for powers of 10. = 2. 1234 x 104, may be written as. E" notation is especially useful when you want to get the number of significant figures (sigfigs) correct. In the previous example, if you know that you only need 3 sigfigs in the answer, it becomes. 2. 12e4: units may be input in different ways; capa understands the conversions. For example, 1 m/s may also be expressed as 100 cm/s or as 60 m/min, although not as 6013 furlongs/fortnight: some problems require units, and some don"t. It"s not arbitrary, though it requires a careful reading of the problem.