Why are Significant Figures Important?
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What's the point of significant figures?!? Really, significant figures (or significant digits) can be such a pain in the neck. What is the point? Significant figures tell us how to round, but they also make sure that the answer we get from a math problem is not more precise than the numbers that we started with. Accuracy and precision are both important with significant figures and digits.
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I still fail to understand the purpose of significant figures. You say it is so that nonprecise measurements don't give us precise results, but that seems like something very silly to care about. So what an answer has a lot of digits? No scientist will look at the final answer and assume the precision of which the starting numbers were measured. They should understand that two numbers can be divided to form a more extensive or irrational number.
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Hi, Tyler DeWitt , I am a chemistry lecturer from India. I really like all your videos on Significant figures. Great job ! It has clarified some of the FAQs of my students and mine too !! Thanks again, keep up the good work !
11 years later you are still a legend. All your significant figures videos are great!
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Finally found a good explanation of the why behind significant figures. Awesome explanation, thank you.
I'm so happy you liked it! This is one of the my favorite videos that I've ever made!
Loved the analogy
That is really funny. I will never forget this because it is very logical.
Thank you! This is one of my favorite videos that I ever made!
Tyler DeWitt This video taught me something I had never even thought about. Thank you for contributing your knowledge to TH-cam as free education.
Thank you so much my teacher was trying so hard to explain this to me but I just wasn't getting it. I watch this and it immediately makes sense!!
Your analogy is brilliant. Really made this concept click for me--I only wish teachers could explain it as easily and clearly as you did...then we could all avoid the headache of students complaining that this concept doesn't make sense. Teachers set themselves up for failure when they present sig figs as this obscure and bizarre concept that no one understands. Thanks so much for this video!
Oh my god, you are the best. today when I went to my physics class and didn't get the explanation, I wasn't procrastinating as I knew about your channel before and also that u must have made a video on significant digit already. now I can confidently walk in class as your lesson made everything crystal clear. one more thing I also really like the way your video are format, they seems so professional, Keep up the good work.
I’m very sensitive, but your passion for educating made me tear up at the end of the lesson. Thank you for your help!
Thanks a lot. Sharing one's knowledge never fade up, you have uploaded this 8yrs back and now am getting used of it. Love the way of ur teaching ❤️
By far, this is the best tutorial i have seen . Thank you and keep up the good work. you are a tremendous help.
"I measured both of these with plastic science equipment from the Barbie playset"
Gets me every time.
jesus!! thanks god for the last video. i ve seen all the nine videos before in a raw getting pissed off for your different approach. and than, here you are again in the last one with the same effective method ; making examples, making me care, showing the point. every teachers in the world should learn how to teach like this, especially here in italy. I THINK WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF YOU TAUGTH TEACHERS HOW TO TEACH!
This is an A+ example of a well-explained video. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much Taylor, I look around alot of video which doesn't solve my question except yours! You are gifted with chemistry and explaining , you are a hero to save my chemistry.
You should do a video of significant figures in combine operations.
Wow finally sig figs make sense! Thanks!
Hats off Tyler. My 30 years of failure in understanding this concept was done straight after seeing these 10 simple, excellent and extraordinary video clips. You are a Star. You are a light.
Many chemistry teachers came in my life but it's only you who has satisfied me 🙏
I was creating my first videos on TH-cam and I met you for the first as a math student and student tutor.... And honestly not explanation is off the chain.... Awesome job bro
Such an incredibly awesome way to explain concepts 👌! Hats off to you
You explained it so simply but clearly. Thank you so much!
What an amazing Explanation!! This concept I'm not able to understand since high school but now it's crystal clear.
wow. thank. you. I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHY IT MATTERS!!! I asked my college professor to explain this and he wasn't able to explain it in an hour lecture... as great as you did in 7 minutes.
Excellent explanation, and having lived in Manhattan in my 20s, nice nod to the city with the super precise directions!
Your explanation, it just makes so much sense. Thank you
Explained it better than any teacher I'd ever had. Thank you so much.
This video is really very helpful for the students to understand the importance of significant figures. Thank you very much for posting this..Bless your heart..
That street corner analogy was beautiful, thanks for the lesson!
Good explanation. Precisely what we needed. That's significant! Thanks.
Thanks, u r such a good teacher, u r better than my highly graduated chemistry and maths teachers, love from india
Thorough explanation. Impressive!
awesome analogy sir.....thank you.....very very much
The answer to my age-old question and partially how I'm getting my chemical groove back. Thanks Tyler.
Very well explained- this helped me understand this concept immediately. Thanks so much, and please continue to make videos.
thank you this was really helpful and informative and clear straight to the point,helped me for chem class keep up the good good work 👍
Wow. Thank you so much. You explained this sooo well, and I really needed to know this ty!
Brilliant technique and amazing method.
This makes a lot of sense. Thanks for clearing it up.
When you said the MASS of the rock was 82 grams, I think you meant VOLUME.....
Just kidding.
I was pretending to be one of those people that feel the need to correct you over absurdities.
I'm so thankful for your videos, you're going to be the reason I make it through this semester!
You definitely made me smile. Thanks for the comment!
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Volume is measured in cubic centimeters; mass is measured in grams or kg.
GuitaRN he is just giving examples,not in reality
You had me for a minute...
Thanks man, I have a summative tomorrow and I really need this.
Good and satisfying explanation of sigfig with objectivity rather than telling rules without context
Great analogy man, thanks. Helped a lot!
Explains everything beautifully. A born teacher.
Thanks for making this video. Super Awesome Explanation
You're the reason I'm starting to like chem. I owe you all of my thank you's.
such a brilliant video man. Keep 'em coming!
Checking in from ASU CHM114. Awesome video!
Awesome explanation!
You are amazing sir, i have understood significant figures completely, that i was struggling with. Thanks a lot❤
So superbly explained!! Thank you very much for this video....
You sir, are brilliant. Thank you so much.
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Fantastic video! Thank you!
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Very helpful video. Thanks
That was an EXCELLENT example!
I understood the whole of the concept becoz of just that one real life example.....do try to include examples like these....makes us understand better! Thanks a lot! may gid bless you....
Great and simple explanation.
Thank you for explaining it to well!!
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Super precise explanation...🔥🔥
This has to be the very best explanation on significant figures.
THANK YOU, YOU ARE AN AMAZING TEACHER!!!
That was truly useful, thank you so much
awesome tyler is the man! But question??? is accuracy a better term than precise for the locations downtown, since precision means close relative to other measures, whereas accuracy refers to close to true measure (like the actual location)? (which I learned from tylers other videos haha)
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superb explanation !!!
thanks man, you explained it really well
Thanks !
Now I get the bigger picture, exactly what was missing in my puzzle.
this is so helpful. thank you!
this is really well explained video...you give us a veryy logical reasons why significant figures are important...thankyou sir..god bless you 😊
Finally a video where someone explained the IDEA of sig figs! -- A Chem teacher looking for support materials for students
Awesome, Sensei keep up the good work
Extremely helpful explanation that even an idiot like me could grasp. Just starting a science degree and this helped a lot, thank you.
This is amazing...thank you!
Dr. Burger style for explaining things, great job !!!!!
amazing explanation.
Thank you good sir!
that was an awesome analogy!!
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Omg Tyler. Thank you so much. I thought I was going to fail Chemistry after the first chapter! This helps so much because I read the chapter and was like: So the F What!
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I'm a teached. Watched the whole playlist of SF. You explain what an ambiguous numbers are, and adding them. Example: 7000 + 1
You're a saviour man, Thanks a lot
great video!
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Hi Tyler, you are an awesome teacher and thank you for making all these videos! I only have one question about one of the words you used in this video. Why did you use the word precise instead of accurate? Based on the definitions of the two words, isn't it better to use the word "accurate" since the rocket laser scale can measure something closer to the actual value?
AGREE!
Thank you 🙏
Hey man, awesome video. So essentially the heart of the problem lies in the fact that in chem/physics we often measure things and it is basically impossible to get a measurement that is 100% correct right?
Hi Tyler DeWitt! Thank you for posting this video it has cleared up a lot of misunderstanding for me. I do have one question, when we are doing problems in chemistry most of the time we are given the numbers for example the rock in your video how do I know if its a precise number or not? Am I over thinking this?
THANX.....this helped a ton!
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Awesome as usual
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Dude, thanks for making sense👌
waow..this is soooo cool,am not an experience student in the science class after more than 6years studying management course,but hope this video will help me in the science faculty in my A /AS level programme ...thanks alot . Tyler DeWitt.