Physics307L:Schedule/Week 6 agenda

1. Discussion of Lab #1
2. Discussion of changes to course
3. Calculating mean +/- standard error of the mean
   • This is the foundation: allow us to find the most likely value of a parameter, with an associated value. Knowing how to do this is essential for more sophisticated things we will learn: error propagation, fitting functions, etc.
   • Central limit theorem (I): (Last week) distribution of averaged measurmeents ... (II): distribution of single measurement as a result of a bunch of small, independent, random errors.
   • Significant figures