Test Preparation

You can do well on Monday's test:

• Study!! Pay particular attention to past quizzes and measuring assessments
  
• Make sure you know: course expectations, safety procedures, the format of a lab report, ratios and proportions, mass is not weight, how to read scales, accuracy vs. precision, how to set up your Lab Notebook, how to use balances
• Expectations (what to bring to class)
  
• General lab safety (books, work area, floor space)
• Define: ratio, proportion, mass, precision, accuracy
• Be able to: solve proportions, cross multiply & isolate the variable, use correct units, convert from cm to m, and from m to cm and/or Km
• Know the strengths and weaknesses of the three types of balances