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would be your guess: can an American Corvette get away if chased by an Italian police Lamborghini?
propagation of error physics The top speed of the Corvette is 186 mph ± 2 mph.Error Propagation Calculator
The top speed of the Lamborghini Gallardo is 309 km/h ± 5 km/h. We know that 1 mile = error propagation square root 1.61 km. In order to convert the speed of the Corvette to km/h, we need to multiply it by the factor of 1.61. What should we do with the error? Well,
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you've learned in the previous section that when you multiply two quantities, you add their relative errors. The relative error on the Corvette speed is 1%. However, the conversion factor from miles to kilometers can be regarded as an exact number.1 There is no error associated with it. Its relative error is 0%. Thus the relative error on the Corvette speed in km/h error propagation average is the same as it was in mph, 1%. (adding relative errors: 1% + 0% = 1%.) It means that we can multiply the error in mph by the conversion constant just in the same way we multiply the speed. So our answer for the maximum speed of the Corvette in km/h is: 299 km/h ± 3 km/h. Now we are ready to answer the question posed at the beginning in a scientific way. The highest possible top speed of the Corvette consistent with the errors is 302 km/h. The lowest possible top speed of the Lamborghini Gallardo consistent with the errors is 304 km/h. Bad news for would-be speedsters on Italian highways. No way can you get away from that police car. The rule we discussed in this chase example is true in all cases involving multiplication or division by an exact number. You simply multiply or divide the absolute error by the exact number just as you multiply or divide the central value; that is, the relative error stays the same when you multiply or divide a measured value by an exact number. << Prev
metres long, but I’ve only got a 4 metre tape measure. I’ve also got a 1 metre ruler as well, so what I do is
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extend the tape measure to measure 4 metres, and then I measure
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the last metre with the ruler. The measurements I get, with their errors, are: Sponsored Links                                                    Now I want error propagation excel to know the entire length of my room, so I need to add these two numbers together – 4 + 1 = 5 m. But what about the errors – how https://phys.columbia.edu/~tutorial/propagation/tut_e_4_3.html do I add these? Adding and subtracting numbers with errors When you add or subtract two numbers with errors, you just add the errors (you add the errors regardless of whether the numbers are being added or subtracted). So for our room measurement case, we need to add the ‘0.01m’ and ‘0.005m’ errors together, to get ‘0.015 m’ as our final error. We just http://www.math-mate.com/chapter34_4.shtml need to put this on the end of our added measurements:                                                       You can show how this works by considering the two extreme cases that could happen. Say the measurement with our tape measure was over by the maximum amount – when we measured 4 m it was actually 3.99 m. Let’s also say that the ruler measurement was over as well by the maximum amount – so when we measured 1.00 m it was really 0.995 m. If we add these two amounts together, we get:                                                  This number is exactly the same as the lower limit of our error estimate for our added measurements:                                                    You’d find it would also work if you considered the opposite case – if our measurements were less than the actual distances. Adding or subtracting an exact number The error doesn’t change when you do something like this:                                                        Multiplication or division by an exact number If you have an exact number multiplying or dividing a number with an error in it, you just multiply/divide both the number and the error by the exact number. For instance:                                                   Multiplication of numbers with er
find that the error in this measurement is 0.001 in. To find the area we multiply the width (W) and length (L). The area then is L x W = (1.001 in) x (1.001 in) = 1.002001 in2 which rounds to 1.002 in2. This gives http://www.utm.edu/~cerkal/Lect4.html an error of 0.002 if we were given that the square was exactly super-accurate 1 inch a side. This is an example of correlated error (or non-independent error) since the error in L and W are the same. The error in L is correlated with that of in W. Now, suppose that we made independent determination of the width and length separately with an error of 0.001 in each. In this case where two independent measurements are performed the errors are independent or uncorrelated. error propagation Therefore the error in the result (area) is calculated differently as follows (rule 1 below). First, find the relative error (error/quantity) in each of the quantities that enter to the calculation, relative error in width is 0.001/1.001 = 0.00099900. The resultant relative error is Relative Error in area = Therefore the absolute error is (relative error) x (quantity) = 0.0014128 x 1.002001=0.001415627. which rounds to 0.001. Therefore the area is 1.002 in2± 0.001in.2. This shows that random relative errors do not simply propagation of error add arithmetically, rather, they combine by root-mean-square sum rule (Pythagorean theorem). Let’s summarize some of the rules that applies to combining error when adding (or subtracting), multiplying (or dividing) various quantities. This topic is also known as error propagation. 2. Error propagation for special cases: Let σx denote error in a quantity x. Further assume that two quantities x and y and their errors σx and σy are measured independently. In this case relative and percent errors are defined as Relative error = σx / x, Percent error = 100 (σx / x) Multiplying or dividing with a constant. The resultant absolute error also is multiplied or divided. Multiplication or division, relative error. Addition or subtraction: In this case, the absolute errors obey Pythagorean theorem. If a and b are constants, If there are more than two measured quantities, you can extend expressions provided above by adding more terms under the square root sign. Square or cube of a measurement : The relative error can be calculated from where a is a constant. Example 1: Determine the error in area of a rectangle if the length l=1.5 ±0.1 cm and the width is 0.42±0.03 cm. Using the rule for multiplication, Example 2: The area of a circle is proportional to the square of the radius. If the radius is determined as r = 10.0 ±0.3 cm, what is the uncertainty in the area? CORRECTION NEED