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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 propagation of error physics their uncertainties scientifically? The answer to this fairly common question depends on how the
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individual measurements are combined in the result. We will treat each case separately: Addition of measured quantities If you have measured values error propagation inverse for the quantities X, Y, and Z, with uncertainties dX, dY, and dZ, and your final result, R, is the sum or difference of these quantities, then the uncertainty dR is: Here the upper equation error propagation square root 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 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:
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(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 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 t
"change" in the value of that quantity. Results are is obtained by mathematical operations on the data, and small changes in any data quantity can affect the value of a result. We say that "errors in the error propagation average data propagate through the calculations to produce error in the result." 3.2 MAXIMUM ERROR We first error propagation excel consider how data errors propagate through calculations to affect error limits (or maximum error) of results. It's easiest to first consider determinate errors, which have
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explicit sign. This leads to useful rules for error propagation. Then we'll modify and extend the rules to other error measures and also to indeterminate errors. The underlying mathematics is that of "finite differences," an algebra for dealing with numbers http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/labs/error/e2.htm which have relatively small variations imposed upon them. The finite differences we are interested in are variations from "true values" caused by experimental errors. Consider a result, R, calculated from the sum of two data quantities A and B. For this discussion we'll use ΔA and ΔB to represent the errors in A and B respectively. The data quantities are written to show the errors explicitly: [3-1] A + ΔA and B + ΔB We allow the possibility that https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/errorman/propagat.htm ΔA and ΔB may be either positive or negative, the signs being "in" the symbols "ΔA" and "ΔB." The result of adding A and B is expressed by the equation: R = A + B. When errors are explicitly included, it is written: (A + ΔA) + (B + ΔB) = (A + B) + (Δa + δb) So the result, with its error ΔR explicitly shown in the form R + ΔR, is: R + ΔR = (A + B) + (Δa + Δb) [3-2] The error in R is: ΔR = ΔA + ΔB. We conclude that the error in the sum of two quantities is the sum of the errors in those quantities. You can easily work out the case where the result is calculated from the difference of two quantities. In that case the error in the result is the difference in the errors. Summarizing: Sum and difference rule. When two quantities are added (or subtracted), their determinate errors add (or subtract). Now consider multiplication: R = AB. With errors explicitly included: R + ΔR = (A + ΔA)(B + ΔB) = AB + (ΔA)B + A(ΔB) + (ΔA)(ΔB) [3-3] or : ΔR = (ΔA)B + A(ΔB) + (ΔA)(ΔB) This doesn't look like a simple rule. However, when we express the errors in relative form, things look better. When the error a is small relative to A and ΔB is small relative to B, then (ΔA)(ΔB) is ce
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