Concept — Number of reliable digits of a measurement and estimate of its uncertainty.
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00 Physical quantities, estimates, equilibrium
- Significant figures and uncertainty
- Worked example — area of a measured rectangle
- Worked example — dog or cat: the class survey
- Worked example — from significant figures to the number
- Measurements as intervals
- Percentages and uncertainty in surveys
- Problem — Significant figures at the supermarket
- Problem — The digital scale
- Problem — Ranking relative uncertainties
00b Experimental method
- Worked example — relative uncertainty in a quotient
- Worked example — mean and standard deviation
- Worked example — error propagation in a product
- Problem — Small sample (coin)
- Problem — Significant figures
- Problem — Significant figures, ranking
- Problem — Manual stopwatch versus photogates
- Problem — Systematic versus random error
- Problem — Indeterminacy and method
- Problem — Measurement without error
- Problem — Precision versus accuracy
- Problem — Precision of three instruments
- Problem — Precision required on g
- Problem — Designing the measurement of g
- Problem — How many repetitions to confirm a law
- Problem — Ranking instrument uncertainty
- Problem — Reproducibility of oil density
- Problem — True or false on experimental errors