Quadrature Error Propagation
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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 propagation of error division of these measurements and their uncertainties scientifically? The answer to this fairly common question error propagation formula physics depends on how the individual measurements are combined in the result. We will treat each case separately: Addition of measured quantities
Error Propagation Square Root
If you have measured values 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
Error Propagation Average
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 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 error propagation calculator = 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 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 th
to get a speed, or adding two lengths to get a total length. Now that we have learned how to determine the error in the directly measured quantities we need to learn how these errors propagate
Adding Errors In Quadrature
to an error in the result. We assume that the two directly measured quantities error propagation chemistry are X and Y, with errors X and Y respectively. The measurements X and Y must be independent of each other. error propagation inverse The fractional error is the value of the error divided by the value of the quantity: X / X. The fractional error multiplied by 100 is the percentage error. Everything is this section assumes that the http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/labs/error/e2.htm error is "small" compared to the value itself, i.e. that the fractional error is much less than one. For many situations, we can find the error in the result Z using three simple rules: Rule 1 If: or: then: In words, this says that the error in the result of an addition or subtraction is the square root of the sum of the squares of the errors in the quantities being added http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/ErrorAnalysis/Propagation.html or subtracted. This mathematical procedure, also used in Pythagoras' theorem about right triangles, is called quadrature. Rule 2 If: or: then: In this case also the errors are combined in quadrature, but this time it is the fractional errors, i.e. the error in the quantity divided by the value of the quantity, that are combined. Sometimes the fractional error is called the relative error. The above form emphasises the similarity with Rule 1. However, in order to calculate the value of Z you would use the following form: Rule 3 If: then: or equivalently: For the square of a quantity, X2, you might reason that this is just X times X and use Rule 2. This is wrong because Rules 1 and 2 are only for when the two quantities being combined, X and Y, are independent of each other. Here there is only one measurement of one quantity. Question 9.1. Does the first form of Rule 3 look familiar to you? What does it remind you of? (Hint: change the delta's to d's.) Question 9.2. A student measures three lengths a, b and c in cm and a time t in seconds: a = 50 ± 4 b = 20 ± 3 c = 70 ± 3 t = 2.1 ± 0.
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