A Simple Approach to Experimental Errors.

Phillips, M. D.

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Publication Date: 1972

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A Simple Approach to Experimental Errors

Phillips, M. D.

Physics Education, 7, 6, 383-388, Jul 72

Classifies experimental error into two main groups: systematic error (instrument, personal, inherent, and variational errors) and random errors (reading and setting errors) and presents mathematical treatments for the determination of random errors. (PR)

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods, Experiments, Laboratory Techniques, Measurement, Physical Sciences, Physics

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