Measurement uncertainties and error

A comprehensive lesson which teaches students about errors, uncertainties and how these can be represented as error bars. This lesson was designed to fit needs of the AQA a-level physics course

Tasks are differentiated to suit the needs of each learner.

Learning objective: Understand and apply the concepts of measurement uncertainties.

By the end of the lesson learners should be able to:

Success criteria:
1: Identify random and systematic errors.
2: Calculate different types of uncertainties.
3: Represent uncertainties on graphs.

Powerpoint contains 29 slides.

Contains past paper questions that target this topic, some questions require knowledge from prior lessons.