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Use computers/data loggers/cameras to reduce human error and enable smaller intervals. Use appropriate equipment, e.g a micrometer has higher resolution (0.1 mm) than a ruler (1 mm). Systematic errors affect accuracy and occur due to the apparatus or faults in the experimental method.
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An error is the difference between the measured value and the expected value of something (unavoidable). An uncertainty is a way of expressing or summarizing the error (unavoidable).
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This guide is split into two parts: the main text (with numbered sec-tions) and the appendices (with lettered sections). For the introductory labs (PHY121/122 and PHY133/134), you should know the material from the main text. Sections 2.3 and 2.4 are both optional, but recommended.
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PHYSICS 133 ERROR AND UNCERTAINTY In Physics, like every other experimental science, the numbers we “know” and the ones we measure have always some degree of uncertainty. In reporting the results of an experiment, it is as essential to give the uncertainty, as it is to give the best-measured value.
Learning Goals. Understand how to measure error in a lab experiment. Study how to propagate error from an initial measurement through a calcu- lation. Understand how uncertainty is an integral part of any lab experiment. Introduction. There is no such thing as a perfect measurement.
For our resistance example, xn = Rn, and the standard deviation is = 5:6 . Standard deviation , can be used as an estimate of the uncertainty (probable error), since any individual measurement has a reasonable probability of being in error by at least that amount.
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The standard deviation is the error in each individual measurement of the sample. The error in a quantity is usually indicated by a Δ (“delta”), so the above statement may be written as Δx i = σ. This error is often called statistical. We shall see another type of error in the next section.
