Physics307L:Schedule/Week 4 agenda/Coin Toss

Goals

 * 1) Continue encouraging discussion and contributions from all students
 * 2) Provide a background for discussing
 * 3) * Probility functions
 * 4) * Probility density functions
 * 5) * Parent distributions
 * 6) * Law of large numbers / Bernouilli's theorem
 * 7) * Central limit theorem
 * 8) * Uncertainty
 * 9) * Reporting measurements with uncertainty

Procedure

 * 1) Form groups of two
 * 2) One student flips coin, other student records 0 for tails, 1 for heads
 * 3) Repeat 10 times
 * Possibly a variant if we have time.


 * Link to Google Spreadsheet for Central Limit Theorem introduction