How to choose a scale on a graph | A-Level Physics How To

Got some data to plot on a graph and need to plot it onto a graph grid? What scale are you going to choose for your axes? In this video I demonstrate a method for choosing a scale so that the plotted points will consistenly cover more than half of the graph grid.

Plotting points to cover more than half of the graph grid is an important part of doing accurate graph work (i.e. calculating gradients and intercepts). I hope you find the method easy to use and helpful in all your graph work.

Relevant concepts: physics graphs, accurate graph work, picking a scale for axes, systematic values for graphs, maths skills in physics, maths for physics, maths hacks in physics.

[silent.T]

This video is a life saver. I usually spend about 10 minutes trying to figure out the scale to use on my graph and i want to cry each time especially when my data is all in decimals.Thank you so much ☺️

[Ashiq.Ibrahim]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I ALWAYS STRUGGLED WITH PICKING SUITABLE SCALES. THIS HELPED SO MUCH. THANK YOU.

[BeeS]

Thank you so much! I struggled a lot when graphing manually especially selecting the right scales. This helped a bunch.

[CHINAZAJOSEPH-ybfs]

Compare to other teachers on this subject, you are one of the best.
Nice job.

[uhok]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I’ve been struggling with this for so long, and this helps with literally any data, bless you. Im so grateful for you, thank you so much 😭 ♥️

[particleonazock]

This is a godsend, I could not find any useful videos on graphing, and then, came to your video, which helped immensely. Thank you very much!

[Qploi]

Seriously, thank you so much. Your explanation regarding such topic was superb and helped me out to eliminate one of the major problems I always had to deal with, Truly appreciate it 🙌🏿🙌🏻👍🏿👍🏻

[sampsonagudze]

You are an incredibly fantastic teacher! Great teaching approach.

[BarniDeDino]

clear cut explanation and really helpful at that, thanks a lot

[Xen]

Bravo ! You taught me more than my teacher did.

[diyan]

Doing my IGCSE's currently...Thanks a lot for this video, It really helped!

[baffourisaac]

Thank you so much and it has help me alot

[shaheerahmad]

Why we multiply by 2, this confused me

[raphaelilerioluwa]

Please can you make a video on how to find the error in a reading

[fizixguru]

The grid on the shirt was not a coincidence ...was it?

[redmercurygaming]

This actually just changed my LIFE
thanks so much .😊😋

[pverunique]

Hello. Please if using same example with x-axis = 4.59 as highest and -3.91 as lowest and y-xis= -4.60 as highest and -0.35 as lowest, what do we do??

[dukoronyinye]

I have eye problem I can't see is written on the board

[thakanyanesechache]

Hi. In choosing the scale of the y axis, why did you choose to use 2.5 specifically?

[hndywog]

Does not apply on a grapho n which there are 10 large boxes on horizontal axis.