Syllabus and Overview of the Lab
Copyright, Licenses & Sources
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Understanding Uncertainty and Error Propagation Including Monte Carlo Techniques
Introduction to Uncertainty and Error Propagation Lab
Key Statistics Terms
Data Collection
Introduction to Statistical vs. Systematic Uncertainty
Numbers without Uncertainty
Review of Significant Figures
Mean and Median
How to write numbers - significant figures
Percent Uncertainty
The Normal Distribution and Standard Deviation
Finding Mean and Standard Deviation in Google Sheets
Start Calculating Volume
Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods
Monte Carlo Error Propagation
Monte Carlo Simulation in Google Sheets
Measuring the volume in a different way
Planning Experiments, Making Graphs, and Ordinary Least Squares Fitting
Introduction to the Lab
Introduction to Fields
Review of the Types of Graphs
Sketch of Procedure to Measure g by Dropping
When do I have enough data? Also, fixed references ($) in spreadsheets.
Spreadsheet Template
Making (Good) Graphs
Scatterplot in Plotly Tutorial
Linearizing Data with Algebra
A brief overview of Slope and it's units
Overview of Least Squares Method
Calculating and Graphing the Best Fit Line
Plotting a fit line
Improving Experiments and Incorporating Uncertainties into Fits
Recap the last lab
Point of this lab
Build an uncertainty calculator
Incorporating Uncertainties into Least Squares Fitting
Linearizing with Logarithms
Introduction to Linearizing with Logarithms
The goal of this lab and some terminology
Procedure
First: Some Observations
Creating a workbook with multiple pages and determining how many trials
Determining the number of oscillations
Determining how many lengths and setting up your raw data table
Properties of Logarithms
Propagating Uncertainties through the Logarithms
Making a Summary Table
Weighting logarithmic data
Finally Ready To Fit
More Practice Improving Experiments and Statistical Tests
Introduction to Statistical Tests Lab
Determining the Uncertainty on the Intercept of a Fit
Measuring g Using the Pendulum Data
z-Tests
t-Tests
Interpreting p-values
The Role of Skepticism
Using What you Know to Understand COVID-19
Introduction to COVID-19 Lab
What is R_0?
The Data
Linearizing the COVID-19 Data
Uncertainty for natural logarithms
Looking at the logarithmic plot
Understanding Exponential Growth
Connecting K and R0
Glossary
Fall 2020 Syllabus
Physics 132 Lab Manual by Brokk Toggerson and Aidan Philbin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.