{"id":247,"date":"2014-11-10T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-11-10T22:15:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:15:32","slug":"measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/2014\/11\/10\/measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"spacing-tight\">(based on A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement, Stephanie Bell)<\/span><\/p>\n<h6>What is a measurement?<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"spacing-tight\">A measurement tells us about a property of something. It might tell us how heavy an object or how hot, or how long it is. A measurement gives a number to that property. Measurements are always made using an instrument of some kind. Rulers, stopwatches, weighing scales, and thermometers are all measuring instruments.The result of a measurement is normally in two parts: a number and a unit of measurement, e.g. \u2018How long is it? &#8230; 2 000 millimeters.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(based on A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement, Stephanie Bell) What is a measurement? A measurement tells us about a property of something. It might tell us how heavy an object or how hot, or how long it is. A measurement gives a number to that property. Measurements are always made using an instrument of some kind. Rulers, stopwatches, weighing scales, and thermometers are all measuring instruments.The result of a measurement is normally in two parts: a number and a unit of measurement, e.g. \u2018How long is it? &#8230; 2 000 millimeters.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,49],"tags":[51,50],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laatu","category-measuring","tag-measurement","tag-measuring-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwtech.onedu.fi\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}