Error Propagation Rule For Functions Of A Single Variable
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or more quantities, each with their individual uncertainties, and then combine the information from these quantities in order to come up with a final result of our experiment. How can you state your answer for the combined result of these measurements and their uncertainties scientifically? The answer to this fairly common question depends on error propagation example how the individual measurements are combined in the result. We will treat each case separately: Addition of
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measured quantities If you have measured values for the quantities X, Y, and Z, with uncertainties dX, dY, and dZ, and your final result, R, error propagation calculator is the sum or difference of these quantities, then the uncertainty dR is: Here the upper equation is an approximation that can also serve as an upper bound for the error. Please note that the rule is the same for addition and error propagation chemistry subtraction of quantities. Example: Suppose we have measured the starting position as x1 = 9.3+-0.2 m and the finishing position as x2 = 14.4+-0.3 m. Then the displacement is: Dx = x2-x1 = 14.4 m - 9.3 m = 5.1 m and the error in the displacement is: (0.22 + 0.32)1/2 m = 0.36 m Multiplication of measured quantities In the same way as for sums and differences, we can also state the result for the case of multiplication and division: Again the upper line
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is an approximation and the lower line is the exact result for independent random uncertainties in the individual variables. And again please note that for the purpose of error calculation there is no difference between multiplication and division. Example: We have measured a displacement of x = 5.1+-0.4 m during a time of t = 0.4+-0.1 s. What is the average velocity and the error in the average velocity? v = x / t = 5.1 m / 0.4 s = 12.75 m/s and the uncertainty in the velocity is: dv = |v| [ (dx/x)2 + (dt/t)2 ]1/2 = 12.75 m/s [(0.4/5.1)2 + (0.1/0.4)2]1/2 = 3.34 m/s Multiplication with a constant What if you have measured the uncertainty in an observable X, and you need to multiply it with a constant that is known exactly? What is the error then? This is easy: just multiply the error in X with the absolute value of the constant, and this will give you the error in R: If you compare this to the above rule for multiplication of two quantities, you see that this is just the special case of that rule for the uncertainty in c, dc = 0. Example: If an object is realeased from rest and is in free fall, and if you measure the velocity of this object at some point to be v = - 3.8+-0.3 m/s, how long has it been in free fall? Answer: we can calculate the time as (g = 9.81 m/s2 is assume
of Eq.1 can be evaluated as follows. Each leaf of the parsing tree will either be (1) a constant, (2) a variable, or (3) another sub-tree representing a sub-expression. The derivatives can be computed by the repeated application of the derivative chain rule. Starting from the bottom of error propagation inverse the tree, a value of is pushed on the Derivative Stack (DS) (equivalent of putting on error propagation definition the stack) for every leaf of the tree (which, at the bottom, correspond to the symbols from the symbol table or constants). The nodes of
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a tree corresponds to one of the arithmetic operators ('+', '-', '/', '*', '^', and '**') or built-in functions, which are implemented as function calls. These functions push the result of the operations on the VMS while the corresponding partial http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/labs/error/e2.htm derivatives are pushed on the DS. The final result and the error propagation will in general use the values from both the stacks (the VMS and the DS). E.g. for , when the execution reaches the node for the '' operator, the VMS will have two values, namely and . The DS also has two values, namely the two derivatives and . The value of is pushed on the VMS, and its derivate ( ), computed using both the stacks, pushed on http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~sbhatnag/Softwares/fussy/fussy/node2.html the DS. The '=' operator rule finally takes the value from the DS, and compute the right hand side of Eq.1. An arbitrary expression composed of user defined variables or built-in functions, will itself be represented as a sub-tree. Hence, applying the above algorithm recursively, case (3) above (a sub-expression) will also be correctly handled. Example Figure: The parsing tree for the expression Let (this includes three sub-expressions one of which is a functional), represented as a tree in Fig.1. A value of is pushed on the DS whenever a symbol from the symbol-table is pushed on the VMS. When branch 1 in the above tree is reduced, a call to the built-in function pops a value from the VMS (which is ) and a value from the DS (say , which is ). It then pushes the value of on the VMS and a value of on the DS. Similar operations are done for evaluating . When the execution reaches node 2, the VMS has the values (L) and (R) and the DS has (dL) and (dR). Since '' is a binary operator, when node 2 is reduced, two values each from the VMS and the DS are poped. The multiplication operator then pushes L*R= on the VMS while L*dR + R*dL= is pushed on the DS (note that this uses values from the DS as well as from the VMS). Both the stacks now have one value each - VMS the
propagation of error) is the effect of variables' uncertainties (or errors, more specifically random errors) on the uncertainty of a function based on them. When the variables are the values of experimental measurements they have uncertainties due to measurement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_uncertainty limitations (e.g., instrument precision) which propagate to the combination of variables in the function. The uncertainty u can be expressed in a number of ways. It may be defined by the absolute error Δx. Uncertainties can also be defined by the relative error (Δx)/x, which is usually written as a percentage. Most commonly, the uncertainty on a quantity is quantified in terms of the standard deviation, σ, the positive error propagation square root of variance, σ2. The value of a quantity and its error are then expressed as an interval x ± u. If the statistical probability distribution of the variable is known or can be assumed, it is possible to derive confidence limits to describe the region within which the true value of the variable may be found. For example, the 68% confidence limits for a one-dimensional variable belonging to error propagation rule a normal distribution are ± one standard deviation from the value, that is, there is approximately a 68% probability that the true value lies in the region x ± σ. If the uncertainties are correlated then covariance must be taken into account. Correlation can arise from two different sources. First, the measurement errors may be correlated. Second, when the underlying values are correlated across a population, the uncertainties in the group averages will be correlated.[1] Contents 1 Linear combinations 2 Non-linear combinations 2.1 Simplification 2.2 Example 2.3 Caveats and warnings 2.3.1 Reciprocal 2.3.2 Shifted reciprocal 3 Example formulas 4 Example calculations 4.1 Inverse tangent function 4.2 Resistance measurement 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Linear combinations[edit] Let { f k ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x n ) } {\displaystyle \ ρ 5(x_ ρ 4,x_ ρ 3,\dots ,x_ ρ 2)\}} be a set of m functions which are linear combinations of n {\displaystyle n} variables x 1 , x 2 , … , x n {\displaystyle x_ σ 7,x_ σ 6,\dots ,x_ σ 5} with combination coefficients A k 1 , A k 2 , … , A k n , ( k = 1 … m ) {\disp