Examples: if a vernier caliper’s vernier scale is graduated in 0.02 mm, then the resolution is 0.02 mm. For a digital caliper, the smallest increment in the measurement is the resolution.

For the metric scale to be more accurate than the Imperial scale, the length of the 500 g sliding arm would have to be doubled to accommodate 100 graduations so as to give a 5 g absolute margin of ...

Under 5.0 magnitude: These tend to be I-V on the MM scale. Anything in this intensity range does not generally cause considerable damage. On the higher end, shaking may be felt by many, and ...