Physics307L:Schedule/Week 8 agenda: Difference between revisions

From OpenWetWare
Jump to navigationJump to search
Line 11: Line 11:


===Maximum Likelihood===
===Maximum Likelihood===
====[[Media:307L 2007 Week 8 Millikan data.xlsx]]
====[[Media:307L 2007 Week 8 Millikan data.xlsx]]====


===Weighted average & relation to maximum likelihood===
===Weighted average & relation to maximum likelihood===

Revision as of 11:05, 15 October 2007

Discussion of Survey

Discussion of Lab

Summary for Lab#2

Rough draft of final report due beginning of Week 12 (Nov. 5)

Bonus points on final lab writeup given for contributions to wiki lab manual (a lot of you have a great start on this already)

Lecture (still need to whittle this down)

Review of computing standard error of the mean (as a group)

Use multiple measurements from real experiment (millikan?)

Discuss discrepancy and systematic error in regards to this experiment

Maximum Likelihood

Media:307L 2007 Week 8 Millikan data.xlsx

Weighted average & relation to maximum likelihood

Fitting a line: maximum likelihood

Chi-squared

Error propagation (qualitative)

Graph showing change in y versus change in x