Topic — Study of physical quantities, units of measurement, and the treatment of experimental uncertainty.
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00 Physical quantities, estimates, equilibrium
- What is a physical quantity
- What does it mean to measure?
- Significant figures and uncertainty
- Unit conversion
- Worked exercise — Area of a measured rectangle
- Worked exercise — Bananas to feed the Italian population
- Worked exercise — Dog or cat: the class survey
- Worked exercise — Conversion of compound units
- Worked exercise — From significant figures to the number
- Worked exercise — The halved lead cube
- Worked exercise — The leaking tap
- Worked exercise — The height of the Eiffel Tower
- Worked exercise — The sun’s angle from the shadow
- Worked exercise — How big is a small room in litres
- Worked exercise — A giant car park for all the cars in the world
- Measurements as intervals
- Scientific notation and orders of magnitude
- Percentages and uncertainty in surveys
- Problem — Dimensional analysis of the pendulum
- Problem — Hairs on the head
- Problem — Significant figures at the supermarket
- Problem — Elementary conversions
- Problem — Fundamental or derived
- Problem — The digital scale
- Problem — Linearising the pendulum
- Problem — The Adriatic Sea
- Problem — Familiar orders of magnitude
- Problem — How many hairs does a head have
- Problem — Ranking relative uncertainties
- Problem — Ranking orders of magnitude
- Problem — Breaths in a lifetime
- Problem — Cooking rice, Fermi style
- Problem — SI without the second
- Problem — True or false (dimensional analysis)
- Problem — Volume of a parallelepiped
- Fermi estimates
- Trigonometry and indirect measurements
00b Experimental method
- Problem — Direct or indirect measurement
- Problem — Precision of three instruments
- Problem — Independent, dependent, and confounding variables
- Problem — Controlled variables in a gas