Physics307L:Schedule/Week 10 agenda

2011

• Group work (10 minutes) -- two measurements, what to do?
  • (write on the board) (a) 34.8 +/- 0.5 cm/ns (b) 0.28(2) m/ns
  • Discuss with neighbor: As a scientist, what should you do with these measurements to report a final answer? What do you want to do? What can you do?
• Discussion of group work

• Links on other pages for now

Prior years

• Sebastian / Matthew example SEM

Derivation of linear fitting

Supporting Excel sheets

• File:Weighted mean and random.xlsx (This is the Excel 2007 version)
• File:Weighted mean and random.xls (This is the Excell 2003 version)