Master Scientific Notation & Significant Figures ๐
Learn how to write numbers in scientific notation and understand significant figures with Chadโs easy explanations.

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Scientific Notation and Significant Figures
Struggling with Scientific Notation or Significant Figures? Chad can help. He explains how to write numbers in proper scientific notation and presents the rules for identifying whether a zero is significant or not and for determining the number of 'sig figs' in a number providing several examples along the way. Chad also includes how to determine the number of significant figures in an answer when performing multiplication / division and addition / subtraction. Chad concludes the lesson with by defining and distinguishing between Precision and Accuracy.
I've embedded this playlist as a course on my website with all the lessons organized by chapter in a collapsible menu and much of the content from the study guide included on the page. Check this lesson out at https://www.chadsprep.com/chads-general-chemistry-videos/significant-figures-chemistry/
If you want all my study guides, quizzes, final exam reviews, and practice exams, check out my premium course at https://www.chadsprep.com/genchem-youtube
00:00 Lesson Introduction
00:31 Scientific Notation
03:13 Significant Figures
07:12 Rules for Zeroes - Sig Figs
12:01 Rules for Multiplication/Division & Addition/Subtraction
19:46 Precision and Accuracy
https://www.chadsprep.com/
Struggling with Scientific Notation or Significant Figures? Chad can help. He explains how to write numbers in proper scientific notation and presents the rules for identifying whether a zero is significant or not and for determining the number of 'sig figs' in a number providing several examples along the way. Chad also includes how to determine the number of significant figures in an answer when performing multiplication / division and addition / subtraction. Chad concludes the lesson with by defining and distinguishing between Precision and Accuracy.
I've embedded this playlist as a course on my website with all the lessons organized by chapter in a collapsible menu and much of the content from the study guide included on the page. Check this lesson out at https://www.chadsprep.com/chads-general-chemistry-videos/significant-figures-chemistry/
If you want all my study guides, quizzes, final exam reviews, and practice exams, check out my premium course at https://www.chadsprep.com/genchem-youtube
00:00 Lesson Introduction
00:31 Scientific Notation
03:13 Significant Figures
07:12 Rules for Zeroes - Sig Figs
12:01 Rules for Multiplication/Division & Addition/Subtraction
19:46 Precision and Accuracy
https://www.chadsprep.com/
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