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1. Intro to Physics Units
1. Intro to Physics Units / Introduction to Units / Problem 3

When manufacturing precision-engineered components for a spacecraft, the length of a critical component needs to be determined with extreme accuracy. If this component should have a length of 30 cm to within ±0.1 mm, what percentage of uncertainty in the length is permissible, and how many significant figures should be used in the measurement of the length?

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