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What is the formula for it? I keep getting conflicitng info
Please could you give me an example of when it is applied please? Thank you
Please could you give me an example of when it is applied please? Thank you
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What is the formula for it? I keep getting conflicitng info
Please could you give me an example of when it is applied please? Thank you
What is the formula for it? I keep getting conflicitng info
Please could you give me an example of when it is applied please? Thank you
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(Original post by Jaegis)
As in percentage error?
As in percentage error?
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https://pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com...ertainties.pdf
Have a read through this. Anything you don’t understand specifically, come back and ask for clarification.
Have a read through this. Anything you don’t understand specifically, come back and ask for clarification.
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(Original post by aroundanaxis)
i mean that's part of it yeah. Just anything u can tell me rly. THnks
i mean that's part of it yeah. Just anything u can tell me rly. THnks
Percentage error = total uncertainty / reading x 100
So if you took a reading of 25cm3 from a burette, which has an uncertainty of 0.5cm3, you'd get
0.5 / 25 x 100 = 2% percentage error
I might be remembering the burette's uncertainty wrong, but you get the idea.
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So is uncertainty half an interval?
Eg if its a 10cm3 measuring cylinder, the uncertainty is +/- 0.5cm3?
Eg if its a 10cm3 measuring cylinder, the uncertainty is +/- 0.5cm3?
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So is uncertainty half an interval?
Eg if its a 10cm3 measuring cylinder, the uncertainty is +/- 0.5cm3?
So is uncertainty half an interval?
Eg if its a 10cm3 measuring cylinder, the uncertainty is +/- 0.5cm3?
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(Original post by Jaegis)
The less accurate your equipment (like a glass pipette or a mass balance), the more uncertain your results are. If your scales say that the mass of a beaker is, I don't know, 21g, it could really be something like 21.4g or 20.5g (I'm not the best at rounding sig. figs., so don't quote me on that), which means you don't know the precise result - there's an uncertainty. Over a whole experiment, every piece of equipment you use will have some uncertainty in the result, so by the end there is a larger overall uncertainty. The uncertainty can be calculated as a percentage, both for an individual measurement and all of them together in an experiment;
Percentage error = total uncertainty / reading x 100
So if you took a reading of 25cm3 from a burette, which has an uncertainty of 0.5cm3, you'd get
0.5 / 25 x 100 = 2% percentage error
I might be remembering the burette's uncertainty wrong, but you get the idea.
The less accurate your equipment (like a glass pipette or a mass balance), the more uncertain your results are. If your scales say that the mass of a beaker is, I don't know, 21g, it could really be something like 21.4g or 20.5g (I'm not the best at rounding sig. figs., so don't quote me on that), which means you don't know the precise result - there's an uncertainty. Over a whole experiment, every piece of equipment you use will have some uncertainty in the result, so by the end there is a larger overall uncertainty. The uncertainty can be calculated as a percentage, both for an individual measurement and all of them together in an experiment;
Percentage error = total uncertainty / reading x 100
So if you took a reading of 25cm3 from a burette, which has an uncertainty of 0.5cm3, you'd get
0.5 / 25 x 100 = 2% percentage error
I might be remembering the burette's uncertainty wrong, but you get the idea.
if working out percentage uncertainty of a burette from a titration experiment specifically, 0.05cm3 should be doubled to 0.1cm3 because the burette is read twice in the experiment (initial reading and final reading) therefore the total uncertainty part of the formula
Percentage error = total uncertainty / reading x 100
would be 0.1
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