Physics307L:Schedule/Week 4 agenda/Coin Toss: Difference between revisions
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==Procedure== | |||
# Form groups of two | |||
# Flip ten coins at once and record number of heads | |||
# Repeat, report results | |||
* [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDRJNlNSMEJWU21MX3UyQXVMS3VHd2c&hl=en# Link to Google Spreadsheet for Central Limit Theorem introduction] | |||
==Results== | ==Results== | ||
===2011 Coin Toss Results=== | |||
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDBWQnhwcUNfYmRMMG1fN3h6U25aLXc&output=html Google Spreadsheet] | |||
Latest revision as of 09:42, 19 September 2011
Goals
- Continue encouraging discussion and contributions from all students
- Provide a background for discussing
- Probility functions
- Probility density functions
- Parent distributions
- Law of large numbers / Bernouilli's theorem
- Central limit theorem
- Uncertainty
- Reporting measurements with uncertainty
Procedure
- Form groups of two
- Flip ten coins at once and record number of heads
- Repeat, report results
