Recording a reading
Recording a reading: a 44-second reenactment recorded in the KELIBRON 3D lab, with English captions. The steps below are the captions in order, and you can do the same measurement yourself in the lab.
What happens in the video
- 0:00 Recording a reading
- 0:05 Write it as shown. Keep the zeros, which show the caliper resolved hundredths.
- 0:12 In inches the display steps, so the last digit is 0 or 5. Write what it shows.
- 0:23 This vernier reads to its scale interval, so the last digit is always even.
- 0:30 A record: value and unit, part and feature, gauge number, date, and who measured.
In the course
- Measurement basics · Recording a reading — Write a reading with the right number of digits and its unit.
