Counting Error Analysis
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it. In doing this it is crucial to understand that all measurements of physical quantities are subject to uncertainties. It is never possible to measure anything exactly. It is good, of course, to make the error as small as possible but counting error statistics it is always there. And in order to draw valid conclusions the error must be indicated track officials counting error costs british hurdler j and dealt with properly. Take the measurement of a person's height as an example. Assuming that her height has been determined to be poisson counting error 5' 8", how accurate is our result? Well, the height of a person depends on how straight she stands, whether she just got up (most people are slightly taller when getting up from a long rest in horizontal position), error analysis linguistics whether she has her shoes on, and how long her hair is and how it is made up. These inaccuracies could all be called errors of definition. A quantity such as height is not exactly defined without specifying many other circumstances. Even if you could precisely specify the "circumstances," your result would still have an error associated with it. The scale you are using is of limited accuracy; when you read the scale, you may have to estimate a
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fraction between the marks on the scale, etc. If the result of a measurement is to have meaning it cannot consist of the measured value alone. An indication of how accurate the result is must be included also. Indeed, typically more effort is required to determine the error or uncertainty in a measurement than to perform the measurement itself. Thus, the result of any physical measurement has two essential components: (1) A numerical value (in a specified system of units) giving the best estimate possible of the quantity measured, and (2) the degree of uncertainty associated with this estimated value. For example, a measurement of the width of a table would yield a result such as 95.3 +/- 0.1 cm. Significant Figures The significant figures of a (measured or calculated) quantity are the meaningful digits in it. There are conventions which you should learn and follow for how to express numbers so as to properly indicate their significant figures. Any digit that is not zero is significant. Thus 549 has three significant figures and 1.892 has four significant figures. Zeros between non zero digits are significant. Thus 4023 has four significant figures. Zeros to the left of the first non zero digit are not significant. Thus 0.000034 has only two significant figures. This is more easily seen if it is written as 3.4x10-5. For numbers with decimal points, zeros to the right of
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