\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{samywestside} \pdfinfo{ /Title (sig-figs.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (samywestside) /Subject (Sig Figs Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{A3A3A3} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F3F3F3} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Sig Figs Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{samywestside} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/23261/cs/5090/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}samywestside \\ \uline{cheatography.com/samywestside} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 2nd September, 2015.\\ Updated 13th May, 2016.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Significant Figures}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Significant Figures}}: Digits in a measurement that can be determined accurately plus one that is estimated and is therefore uncertain. \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 3) -All non-zero digits are always significant \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) 446= sig figs \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) -Zeros: \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) \#1-Zeros at the beginning of numbers( are never significant) \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2) =0.678-3 sig figs \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) \#2-Zeros b/n non-zero digits are always significant \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2) =706-3 sig figs \newline % Row Count 12 (+ 1) \#3- Zeros at the end of numbers are only considered sig figs if there is a decimal point in the number or at the end of the number \newline % Row Count 15 (+ 3) =760-2 sig figs \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 1) =760.0-4 sig figs \newline % Row Count 17 (+ 1) {\bf{Exact Numbers}}: Numbers that are counted not obtained using measuring devices have infinite sig figs.(Most conversion factors are exact numbers) \newline % Row Count 20 (+ 3) {\bf{Scientific Notation}}: For values written in Scientific notation, the digits in the coefficient (numbers without an exponent). \newline % Row Count 23 (+ 3) =1.500*10\textasciicircum{}4-4 sig figs \newline % Row Count 24 (+ 1) {\bf{Scientific notation in Conversion rules}} \newline % Row Count 25 (+ 1) \#1=Move the decimal point to the position so one non-zero digit is to the left of the decimal point \newline % Row Count 27 (+ 2) \#2=If the decimal point is moved to the right, the exponent is positive \newline % Row Count 29 (+ 2) \#3=If the decimal point is moved to the left, the exponent is negative% Row Count 31 (+ 2) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Rounding Adding,Subtracting,Dividing,Multiplying}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Rounding using Sig Figs}} \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) -5 or greater will round up to the next digit \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) -4 or less will be rounded down \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) =1234.5 to 4 sig figs-1235 \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) {\bf{Calculating using Sig Figs}} \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) {\emph{Multiplication/Division}} \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) \#1= Answer should have the same number of significant as the measurement with the fewest sig figs \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2) =1.35*0.04-0.0536-0.05 (Least number has 1 sig figs so you round the answer to 1 sig fig) \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 2) {\emph{Addition/Subtraction}} \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 1) \#1=The answer should have the same number of decimal places as the least precise measurement (Look at the place value of the least precise) \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 3) =1.34+2.3=3.64-3.6 (10\textasciicircum{}th\textasciicircum{} is the least so answer should only go up to the 10\textasciicircum{}th\textasciicircum{}% Row Count 16 (+ 2) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Density and Percent Error}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Density}} \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) Mass/Volume= Density \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) {\emph{Intensive physical property}}: Doesn't change with increase in amount. \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 2) {\emph{Volume}} \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) Liquids=ml \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) Solids=cm\textasciicircum{}3\textasciicircum{} \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 1) {\bf{Percent error}} \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 1) Quantitative comparison of the experimental value to the correct or accepted value. \% error is negative when experimental is smaller than actual. \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 3) \% Error=(Experiment-Actual Value/Actual Value)*100% Row Count 12 (+ 1) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}