Absolute and Percentage Uncertainties and Rules for Calculations Slideshow

A Keynote¹ presentation for introducing students to handling experimental uncertainties in science measurements. Topics covered are: types of error (systematic and random), absolute and percentage uncertainty, and rules for determining uncertainty in calculated values (five calculation rules in total).
There is also a sample of exam questions - three for each rule (except rule 1 which has just one exam question).

Also included in addition to the above:

• An explanation of uncertainty in handheld stopwatches.
• Examples - notably an example question with full worked solution for each calculation rule.

There is a lite version of this slideshow available for free so you can get a feel for the resource prior to purchasing this slideshow if you would like to do so. Note that the Lite version does not contain all of the teaching content of this presentation; the rules for multiplication by coefficients and calculation with complex functions (trig and logs) are only available in this version.

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