Reading a Scale

The stumble is carrying the size of one item's divisions straight over to the next. Hold the figure read against the part of the face where the needle has stopped. A needle at exactly halfway whose answer is not half of what the scale weighs shows the reading was taken wrongly.

From Units (kg and g) onward the faces disappear and the material becomes the figure that was read. This lesson is the entrance to holding in the hand, as a figure, a weight the eye cannot judge.