My professor should just play these videos in class on the overhead projector. I've learned more in 30 minutes from these videos than the 2 weeks I've been in class.
I have never loved math, but if you taught it to me, it just makes total sense and is not so imposing and / or overwhelming to me. Thanks for having this channel.
@yeedust watch my video on "scientific notation: multiplication and division." learn how to do that. then come back to this video and use significant figures in your calculation. your problem is no different from the ones i talk about in this lesson. use the significant figures rules to round.
This video helped phenomenally more than the one my AP chem teacher gave us to watch. within 15 seconds of watching, my main question had been answered, instead of waiting fifteen minutes for the yapper in the other video to get to the four points that didn't help with the assignment at all. Thank you for making this!
you want there to be the same number of sig figs in both numbers because you're thinking about the rules for multiplication and division. but the rules are very different for addition and subtraction. in this case, you don't care about how many sig figs in the starting numbers, only where the decimal place is. if this confuses you, you should watch my video called "add and subtract with significant figures (1.6)"
I saw an hour long seminar on Significant Figures and didn't understand it all. I've seen your videos and have now got a clear understanding in about 30 minutes. Thank You!
i talk about this in "scientific notation and significant zeros (1.8)". the point is to show that those last two zeros are significant figures. but it's more complicated--check out the video!
I've been watching a lot of your chemistry videos and you really make chemistry easier. I'm a visual learner and your videos really help! Thank You! :)
@MXMGamer good question. i did two videos that will help with this. the first is called "scientific notation: addition and subtraction." the second one is called "scientific notation: multiplication and division."
You are my hero this semester! I’m going to owe my career all to you. If I don’t pass chemistry this semester, my prerequisites for grad school would be at a stand still and I will never be able to ‘pass go’. Thank for making chemistry digestible and fun to learn. Plus you remind me of my ex, whom I adore, another plus. Just had to say thank you! Hope you are getting paid for this, otherwise i owe you, once I’m no longer a student ;) let you know if i pass this semester...tbc
i hate my physics teacher so much, she just makes us do a few problems and write down definition and that's it. Unfortunately she's also my math teacher :/ I'm glad i found you and other people that essentially saved me
Holy shit! I never thought it was this easy thank you. you saved me man. the way my teacher teaches is so monotone and boring you'd fall asleep but thank you, your a life saver
because i'm adding here, and there are different rules for addition/subtraction than there are for multiplication/division. you want there to be 1 sig fig because those are the multiplication rules. but this is very important--make sure to learn the addition/subtraction rules and it will make sense: watch my video called "add and subtract with significant figures."
You just got me to understand something that my teacher took like 2 weeks on and I still didn't understand. But you took like 8 minutes and I feel like a genius now! THANK YOU :D
@Eywa355 no, i'm sorry, you're wrong. i think you might be confused because you're thinking about the rules for multiplication and division. addition and subtraction have a different set of rules, which i'm following here. let me know if this still doesn't make sense.
I swear Tyler is going to help me pass my Chemistry class. Your videos are so helpful, I'm glad I found them on the second day of the semester. I was about to drop my class. The tutors that the school provides, are terrible. Thank you for helping me and many others. I have recommended your page to many students. You are the best!
Sir 😢😃U just saved me from the confusion Web of significant figures and scientific notation ,Everytime it used to skip from my brain .......Ur way of style just like I am not studying it feels me as I am playing with those topic that before Ur Your Videos Seems to teasing me......☺ Thankyou soo much sir.(in hindi: Dhanyvaad sir).🙇🙏
You are a life saver!! some professors have no patient and expects that you should already know this because it has been discussed in high school. Well, if you are from other country or you have no money to go to college and it will take a long time to get in this class again of course you will forget!! A lot of professors should be patient and be like you. Also, some other brain just does not like math so why push and rush?? Keep up the good work professor!!
I have not used calculations for several years and decided to get my nurse practitioner (DNP) You provided a great review for my chem class. Thank you kindly!
no, the way i do it in the video is right. if this is confusing for you, watch my video called "add and subtract with significant figures," and message me if you still have questions.
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Yeeessss! I’m a sophomore and this was in chapter 3 and I was like what???? And I even went to office hours, but I still didn’t get it. And then tomorrow I have a test on this and I was like I’m gonna fail I still don’t know how to do this, and then I found this dude and I am officially saved😇🙏🏼
I just want to thank you so much!!! I'm doing online learning due to the virus and this has confused me so much, but you made the lightbulb go off!!! I hope you have an amazing life 😄
Thank you for this! This is my topic for my demo teaching and I'm really confused about it but when I watched your video, I already understood it in just 7 minutes. You saved my life brother! ✨
no. look at the numbers we start with : 2 sig figs in 2.0, and 4 sig figs in 8.330. we round the final answer to the smallest of these, so it should have 2 sig figs. why do you think there should be 3 sig figs in the final answer?
Thank you so much! As a 52 year old college student I appreciate the simplicity of the lecture. I have a chemistry test on Thursday and was worried...Glad to say, not anymore!
Hey everyone, I'm here to help. If you have any questions or just want to learn more, click on the link in the description above. It'll take you to a page where you can ask me questions.
Thankyouthanksyouthankyou! I've watched almost every single one of your chemistry videos. And now I'm actually stoked to pass my chemistry exam tomorrow!
Gayatri Devi Donepudi if the exponents are different, you have to move the decimal until one of the powers has the same exponent of the other one. Watch this guys videos on adding and subtracting in scientific notation, he explains it clearly
Hi, my name is Eva I'm in the 8th grade and my FSA is coming up, and the teacher told us that there will be a lot of scientific notation in there. I was so scared because I suck when it come to scientific notation (well at lease I use to) but then I found your video and that changed everything. Now I find myself to be good in scientific notation, now all I need to improve in is reflections and transformation. I just want to thank you so much for making these great videos that have helped me out so much.
Hey Tyler, I have one question about the final answer. Why are we ending up with 3 significant figures when the portion with (9.2x10^4) on has 2? I ended up with a final answer of 1.1x10^5 assuming only 2 significant figures were needed. Thanks for the help!
Tylor Ralph remember that when you add/subtract you take the least number of decimal places, not least number of sig figs. 9.2 has 1 decimal place, so after adding the numbers your answer should have 1 decimal place.
Tomorrow's my Physics exam...n ur vids r doing a great help to me !! Thanx buddy ! :D ..keep on posting such vids...bcz we ''the Gen-Y'' prefer TH-cam mre than our books !! :P
Two memory aids for adjusting the exponent of the 10. Case 1: up. "It was LEFT UP to me to clean the cat barf." (moving the decimal place to the left means increase, i.e., up, the exponent on the 10. Case 2: down. "The fire hall is right down the street from me." Moving the decimal point to the right means you decrease the value of the exponent on the 10.
Thank you so much this is helping me for webassign a ton my teacher got a 34 on his ATC and he cant even explain scientific notation in a week. Again thank you
+Edward Alvarez I said the same thing to myself.. like if it was 10 to the 5th and 10 to the fourth then what do you do? You can't just keep it the same?
in his website, it says " A research scientist, high school teacher, and digital content creator, Tyler draws on these backgrounds to develop engaging curricula and pedagogies that foster critical thinking, problem solving, and authentic understanding. Tyler has taught high school Biology, Chemistry, and English at independent schools in the United States and South Korea, and he worked as a project manager to develop new K12 science curricula for the state of Florida. "
Tyler, thanks for the help , but my chemistry teacher says that in science when its even you round down and odd you round up, is that correct, if it is you do that to 11.45 you would round to 11.4 , thank you
Some teachers do that, but it's not correct to use with science. Those rules were designed for accounting with money, and they're actually called the "bankers rules." Your teacher might wanna keep using the even/odd rounding rules, but maybe you could (politely!) tell your teacher that the even/odd thing is for accounting and bank statements, not for science.
+Tyler DeWitt Thank you for replying, my teacher would never take advice from any student mostly because he teaches for fun, getting paid from his patents in bio chemistry and mechanics, that he profusely brags about, and about his several doctorates in science, not to mention the daily mentions of his work done in " Baxter" ( I believe that that is how you spell it, as I saw it on the back of his shirt yesterday, AACC 88). This makes my job as a student very difficult, when i go online for extra help some things may be different than what he says, making chemistry harder than it could be. All teachers should be strictly held to same standards when teaching fundamental topics. Nonetheless, I really appreciate you spending your time to help students as myself, who need someone who explains in a way that is easily understood and could be rewind when you don't quite understand something. Keep up the great work man !! =)
@@gayatridevidonepudi6448 Pretty sure it's covered in his other videos. If you're adding or subtracting scientific notation, you have to move the decimal as many places as needed to the left or right whilst adjusting the exponent appropriately. If you're multiplying, you first multiply the mantissa (decimal numbers) and then add the exponents (10^3 + 10^4) etc. If you're dividing, you first divide the mantissa and then subtract the exponents (10^3 - 10^4 etc). He answers this better in his videos though.
just move your decimal to the left or right to have similar decimal points and then do the addition or subtraction with the digits then check if its correct scientific notation
I was crying because I thought I could never understand scientific notation and now it's making so much sense. Thank you so much. Chemistry hw here I go :'c
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My professor should just play these videos in class on the overhead projector. I've learned more in 30 minutes from these videos than the 2 weeks I've been in class.
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Agree. How I feel about chemistry 112 right now.
Professor? I'm learning this in 8th grade
The real question is why are you guys learning about sig figs in college...
If you're not a teacher, you'd make an excellent one. Why do i never get teachers that can explain things clearly and simple like this?
propbally becuz there aint one teacher that will go slow and take time for you thats where youtube comes in handy lol
Because some school's just are too cheap or can't afford an awesome teacher.
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because teachers are not compensated for their hard work and ability to teach.
@@Vanessa-fp8db not cheap. The government don't set aside the correct budget.
Lol this guy and the mantissa. When he laughs about it, he makes me laugh.
Same....
I didn't wanna laugh but when he laughed I laughed
Same
I have never loved math, but if you taught it to me, it just makes total sense and is not so imposing and / or overwhelming to me. Thanks for having this channel.
@yeedust watch my video on "scientific notation: multiplication and division." learn how to do that. then come back to this video and use significant figures in your calculation. your problem is no different from the ones i talk about in this lesson. use the significant figures rules to round.
This video helped phenomenally more than the one my AP chem teacher gave us to watch. within 15 seconds of watching, my main question had been answered, instead of waiting fifteen minutes for the yapper in the other video to get to the four points that didn't help with the assignment at all. Thank you for making this!
His comment section in all of his videos are like the MOST positive comment section in the literal history of TH-cam
you want there to be the same number of sig figs in both numbers because you're thinking about the rules for multiplication and division. but the rules are very different for addition and subtraction. in this case, you don't care about how many sig figs in the starting numbers, only where the decimal place is. if this confuses you, you should watch my video called "add and subtract with significant figures (1.6)"
I saw an hour long seminar on Significant Figures and didn't understand it all. I've seen your videos and have now got a clear understanding in about 30 minutes. Thank You!
Dude you have no clue. I had a Chemistry test I had to cram for and you saved my life! Glad my teacher recommended you.
i talk about this in "scientific notation and significant zeros (1.8)". the point is to show that those last two zeros are significant figures. but it's more complicated--check out the video!
People like you deserve to run our education system. Thank you.
@bennemann yes, that is *exactly* what you do.
I've been watching a lot of your chemistry videos and you really make chemistry easier. I'm a visual learner and your videos really help! Thank You! :)
@MXMGamer good question. i did two videos that will help with this. the first is called "scientific notation: addition and subtraction." the second one is called "scientific notation: multiplication and division."
You are my hero this semester! I’m going to owe my career all to you. If I don’t pass chemistry this semester, my prerequisites for grad school would be at a stand still and I will never be able to ‘pass go’. Thank for making chemistry digestible and fun to learn. Plus you remind me of my ex, whom I adore, another plus. Just had to say thank you! Hope you are getting paid for this, otherwise i owe you, once I’m no longer a student ;) let you know if i pass this semester...tbc
i hate my physics teacher so much, she just makes us do a few problems and write down definition and that's it. Unfortunately she's also my math teacher :/ I'm glad i found you and other people that essentially saved me
Holy shit! I never thought it was this easy thank you. you saved me man. the way my teacher teaches is so monotone and boring you'd fall asleep but thank you, your a life saver
Why is it so much easier when you explain it , ive actually learned more in the past 3 videos vs 3 weeks worth of class ! Bless you man bless you !
because i'm adding here, and there are different rules for addition/subtraction than there are for multiplication/division. you want there to be 1 sig fig because those are the multiplication rules. but this is very important--make sure to learn the addition/subtraction rules and it will make sense: watch my video called "add and subtract with significant figures."
I am so glad to find these videos! I am going back to school in my 50's and this guy makes it easy to understand! Thank-you!
You just got me to understand something that my teacher took like 2 weeks on and I still didn't understand. But you took like 8 minutes and I feel like a genius now! THANK YOU :D
@Eywa355 no, i'm sorry, you're wrong. i think you might be confused because you're thinking about the rules for multiplication and division. addition and subtraction have a different set of rules, which i'm following here. let me know if this still doesn't make sense.
you’re the reason i’m passing science, thanks man
EXCELLENT! This is by far the best explanation I have seen. This what a truly great teacher looks like.
I swear Tyler is going to help me pass my Chemistry class. Your videos are so helpful, I'm glad I found them on the second day of the semester. I was about to drop my class. The tutors that the school provides, are terrible. Thank you for helping me and many others. I have recommended your page to many students. You are the best!
absolutely right. there are different rules for multiplication/division and addition/subtraction.
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Sir 😢😃U just saved me from the confusion Web of significant figures and scientific notation ,Everytime it used to skip from my brain .......Ur way of style just like I am not studying it feels me as I am playing with those topic that before Ur Your Videos Seems to teasing me......☺
Thankyou soo much sir.(in hindi: Dhanyvaad sir).🙇🙏
You are a life saver!! some professors have no patient and expects that you should already know this because it has been discussed in high school. Well, if you are from other country or you have no money to go to college and it will take a long time to get in this class again of course you will forget!! A lot of professors should be patient and be like you. Also, some other brain just does not like math so why push and rush?? Keep up the good work professor!!
I have not used calculations for several years and decided to get my nurse practitioner (DNP) You provided a great review for my chem class. Thank you kindly!
no, the way i do it in the video is right. if this is confusing for you, watch my video called "add and subtract with significant figures," and message me if you still have questions.
yes, but i call it unit conversion. so watch my videos starting with "converting units with conversion factors."
Aw His face when he laughed made my heart melt
Thank you so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much, I knew it wasn’t that hard I was just tweaking over my chem hw for no reason
sophomores failing chemistry, i feel you.
burger king this was due end of second quarter the end of the third is Friday and I’m doing this right now
Yeeessss! I’m a sophomore and this was in chapter 3 and I was like what???? And I even went to office hours, but I still didn’t get it. And then tomorrow I have a test on this and I was like I’m gonna fail I still don’t know how to do this, and then I found this dude and I am officially saved😇🙏🏼
Haha ain't failing, just wanted to make sure I understand everything
physics for me, we dont learn sig figs in chem at my school
Lol I have an 86 but if I mess this test up, it won’t be good
I just passed a college quiz thanks to these videos. Thank you, they are very helpful!
I just want to thank you so much!!! I'm doing online learning due to the virus and this has confused me so much, but you made the lightbulb go off!!! I hope you have an amazing life 😄
do you think you could do a few more examples on scientific notation and significant figures while adding or subtracting?
Thank you for this! This is my topic for my demo teaching and I'm really confused about it but when I watched your video, I already understood it in just 7 minutes. You saved my life brother! ✨
the way his face lightens up when talking about chemistry, it is absolutely amazing
This teacher makes me give my chemistry problems a evil smile >:)
no. look at the numbers we start with : 2 sig figs in 2.0, and 4 sig figs in 8.330. we round the final answer to the smallest of these, so it should have 2 sig figs. why do you think there should be 3 sig figs in the final answer?
Thank you so much! As a 52 year old college student I appreciate the simplicity of the lecture. I have a chemistry test on Thursday and was worried...Glad to say, not anymore!
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Hey everyone, I'm here to help. If you have any questions or just want to learn more, click on the link in the description above. It'll take you to a page where you can ask me questions.
Thankyouthanksyouthankyou! I've watched almost every single one of your chemistry videos. And now I'm actually stoked to pass my chemistry exam tomorrow!
Man your video quality is getting better n better I cant wait till I see you in 2015.
8 years later and this video is still help. GOAT
how do you round to the significant figure if the exponents of 10 are different, and you are adding?
did you get the answer to this?
Gayatri Devi Donepudi if the exponents are different, you have to move the decimal until one of the powers has the same exponent of the other one. Watch this guys videos on adding and subtracting in scientific notation, he explains it clearly
@@swhedha exactly ..thanks love ..i was confused
may I know why you move the decimal place to the left?
Watch it, my mom's name is Mantissa.
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Hi, my name is Eva I'm in the 8th grade and my FSA is coming up, and the teacher told us that there will be a lot of scientific notation in there. I was so scared because I suck when it come to scientific notation (well at lease I use to) but then I found your video and that changed everything. Now I find myself to be good in scientific notation, now all I need to improve in is reflections and transformation. I just want to thank you so much for making these great videos that have helped me out so much.
Thanks. You teach about 100 times better than my chemistry teacher
Why does he keep giggling whenever he says Mantissa??
cuz it sounds like man testicle. Just kidding.
Phanteus lol
Phanteus no, more like some guys do that sort of thing when saying something that strikes us as funny.
Because he's awesome
Lmaooo ikr
What is it is 0.003*10^23. Would it be one sig fig or four??
Hey Tyler, I have one question about the final answer. Why are we ending up with 3 significant figures when the portion with (9.2x10^4) on has 2? I ended up with a final answer of 1.1x10^5 assuming only 2 significant figures were needed. Thanks for the help!
Tylor Ralph remember that when you add/subtract you take the least number of decimal places, not least number of sig figs. 9.2 has 1 decimal place, so after adding the numbers your answer should have 1 decimal place.
@@souperman6406 But the answer has 2 decimal places??? 1.13 x 10^5
Tomorrow's my Physics exam...n ur vids r doing a great help to me !! Thanx buddy ! :D ..keep on posting such vids...bcz we ''the Gen-Y'' prefer TH-cam mre than our books !! :P
I'm gonna cry, I love you.
Ive never learned so much in 8min it usually takes me 3 hours at my school thank you so much ill recommend this to my class mates! :)
I love you Tyler. I was so sad that I was going to fail my test because I missed a few days of school. Ur the best
IM DOING A PRESENTATION ABOUT THIS TOMMOROW...OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TEACHING ME NOW I CAN PRESENT IN FRONT CLEARLY AND SIMPLE.
Just started chemistry in college this year. HUGE help! Thank you so much
you are the only reason for what I have confidence in science.
4:37 "now my answer is incorrect" I was like whaaat? hahaha
lol same! I was like well thats not good
He said "Now my answer is now in correct scientific notation."
Timothy Dyck Gee thanks, I never figured that out.
Sanjay Malhotra 😅
"well thats not good"lmAO
Give this guy a trophy. Thank you, sir! So helpful
then you should watch my video called "scientific notation: addition and subtraction."
I find it satisfying watching and hearing you write on the paper with that marker.
God bless you. My class just started and i think I'd already be failing with out you and your videos
You can't say "mantissa" anymore. It's called "peopletissa"
this should have way more likes
@@aat28-l4b those damn degenerates
Two memory aids for adjusting the exponent of the 10. Case 1: up. "It was LEFT UP to me to clean the cat barf." (moving the decimal place to the left means increase, i.e., up, the exponent on the 10.
Case 2: down. "The fire hall is right down the street from me." Moving the decimal point to the right means you decrease the value of the exponent on the 10.
You have made my Chemistry Class so much easier I Love Your Videos
Thank you so much this is helping me for webassign a ton my teacher got a 34 on his ATC and he cant even explain scientific notation in a week. Again thank you
What happens if the exponent on the 10 are not the same?
+Edward Alvarez I said the same thing to myself.. like if it was 10 to the 5th and 10 to the fourth then what do you do? You can't just keep it the same?
+Edward Alvarez did you find the answer for your question or not because I want to know how to solve it ?!
Hala Alsagheer you multiply by 10 until the exponents are the same
thank you.
unable to understand the last equation that is addition
what if addition has different values of 10^x
in his website, it says " A research scientist, high school teacher, and digital content creator, Tyler draws on these backgrounds to develop engaging curricula and pedagogies that foster critical thinking, problem solving, and authentic understanding. Tyler has taught high school Biology, Chemistry, and English at independent schools in the United States and South Korea, and he worked as a project manager to develop new K12 science curricula for the state of Florida. "
In eighth grade honors classes and I’m learning this
Sir, your answer is not appear cause black image on the screen .
@Imahorde to learn how to do this, you should watch my video called "scientific notation: addition and subtraction."
youre amazing. literally i understood every subject you have taught. kudos to you Tyler!
Thank you, you are the best chemistry teacher ever
that was very useful i must say. the textbook tries its best to make all this hard for us！these videos are so useful. thanks alot
why'd you round up the 3 though
All i can say is "thank you"!
Tyler, thanks for the help , but my chemistry teacher says that in science when its even you round down and odd you round up, is that correct, if it is you do that to 11.45 you would round to 11.4 , thank you
Some teachers do that, but it's not correct to use with science. Those rules were designed for accounting with money, and they're actually called the "bankers rules." Your teacher might wanna keep using the even/odd rounding rules, but maybe you could (politely!) tell your teacher that the even/odd thing is for accounting and bank statements, not for science.
+Tyler DeWitt Thank you for replying, my teacher would never take advice from any student mostly because he teaches for fun, getting paid from his patents in bio chemistry and mechanics, that he profusely brags about, and about his several doctorates in science, not to mention the daily mentions of his work done in " Baxter" ( I believe that that is how you spell it, as I saw it on the back of his shirt yesterday, AACC 88). This makes my job as a student very difficult, when i go online for extra help some things may be different than what he says, making chemistry harder than it could be. All teachers should be strictly held to same standards when teaching fundamental topics. Nonetheless, I really appreciate you spending your time to help students as myself, who need someone who explains in a way that is easily understood and could be rewind when you don't quite understand something. Keep up the great work man !! =)
+romagnolirojas10 my college professor had said the same thing sir. It is not correct with science. :)
my professor said the same thing
thank you! Here I was thinking that my professor was retarded. I will politely school her on some science in your behalf
I have chem 11 final next week and your vids helped me so much
I love how he can't say the word 'Mantissa' without giggling a little XD
I love this guy...
what if the exponents are different?
lizzyinthahizzy add them
did you get the answer to this?
@@gayatridevidonepudi6448 Pretty sure it's covered in his other videos. If you're adding or subtracting scientific notation, you have to move the decimal as many places as needed to the left or right whilst adjusting the exponent appropriately. If you're multiplying, you first multiply the mantissa (decimal numbers) and then add the exponents (10^3 + 10^4) etc. If you're dividing, you first divide the mantissa and then subtract the exponents (10^3 - 10^4 etc). He answers this better in his videos though.
@@konxy4704 thank you so much
@@gayatridevidonepudi6448 Glad I could help, thanks for allowing me to practice what I've learnt in trying to teach it! :)
Thanks bro, you literally saved my tasks with your video.
But for multiplication unlike division you'd add the powers, instead of subtracting them, right?
yes
i wanted to thank you for these videos! they help exponentially
Your laugh at 1:14 is super cute.
Kaha se ho Bhai
just move your decimal to the left or right to have similar decimal points and then do the addition or subtraction with the digits then check if its correct scientific notation
I was crying because I thought I could never understand scientific notation and now it's making so much sense. Thank you so much. Chemistry hw here I go :'c
thank you so much for your help! I aced a chemistry test because of you! :)