Physics307L:Schedule/Week 4 agenda/Coin Toss

Goals

1. Continue encouraging discussion and contributions from all students
2. 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

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

Results

2011 Coin Toss Results

Google Spreadsheet