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a percentage of one (or both) values Use Percentage Change when comparing an Old Value to a New Value Use Percentage Error when comparing an Approximate Value to an Exact Value Use Percentage Difference when both percent difference formula values mean the same kind of thing (one value is not obviously older
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or better than the other). (Refer to those links for more details) How to Calculate Step 1: Subtract one value from percent difference definition the other Step 2: Then divide by ... what? Percentage Change: Divide by the Old Value Percentage Error: Divide by the Exact Value Percentage Difference: Divide by the Average of The Two Values Step 3: percent difference chemistry Is the answer negative? Percentage Change: a positive value is an increase, a negative value is a decrease. Percentage Error: ignore a minus sign (just leave it off), unless you want to know if the error is under or over the exact value Percentage Difference: ignore a minus sign, because neither value is more important, so being "above" or "below" does not make sense. Step 4: Convert this into a
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percentage (multiply by 100 and add a % sign) The Formulas (Note: the "|" symbols mean absolute value, so negatives become positive.) Percent Change = New Value - Old Value × 100% |Old Value| Example: There were 200 customers yesterday, and 240 today: 240 - 200 × 100% = (40/200) × 100% = 20% |200| A 20% increase. Percent Error = |Approximate Value - Exact Value| × 100% |Exact Value| Example: I thought 70 people would turn up to the concert, but in fact 80 did! |70 - 80| × 100% = (10/80) × 100% = 12.5% |80| I was in error by 12.5% (Without using the absolute value, the error is -12.5%, meaning I under-estimated the value) Percentage Difference = | First Value - Second Value | × 100% (First Value + Second Value)/2 Example: "Best Shoes" gets 200 customers, and "Cheap Shoes" gets 240 customers: | 240 - 200 | × 100% = |40/220| × 100% = 18.18...% (200+240)/2 Percentage Difference Percentage Error Percentage Change Percentage Index Search :: Index :: About :: Contact :: Contribute :: Cite This Page :: Privacy Copyright © 2014 MathsIsFun.com
using a different procedure to check for consistency. Comparing an experimental percentage error formula value to a theoretical value Percent error is used percent error chemistry when comparing an experimental result E with a theoretical value T that is accepted
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as the "correct" value. ( 1 ) percent error = | T − E |T × 100% For example, if you are comparing your http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/percentage-difference-vs-error.html measured value of 10.2 m/s2 with the accepted value of 9.8 m/s2 for the acceleration due to gravity g, the percent error would be ( 2 ) percent error = | 9.81 − 10.2 |9.81 × 100% = 4% Often, fractional or relative uncertainty is used to http://www.webassign.net/labsgraceperiod/ncsulcpmech2/appendices/appendixB/appendixB.html quantitatively express the precision of a measurement. ( 3 ) percent uncertainty = errorE × 100% The percent uncertainty in this case would be ( 4 ) percent uncertainty = 0.0410.2 × 100% = 0.39% Comparing two experimental values Percent difference is used when comparing two experimental results E1 and E2 that were obtained using two different methods. ( 5 ) percent difference = | E1 − E2 |E1 + E22 × 100% Suppose you obtained a value of 9.95 m/s2 for g from a second experiment. To compare this with the result of 10.2 m/s2 from the first experiment, you would calculate the percent difference to be ( 6 ) percent difference = | 9.95 − 10.2 |9.95 + 10.22 × 100% = 2.5% Copyright © 2010 Advanced Instructional Systems, Inc. and North Carolina State University. | Credits
as the value of p or the acceleration due to earth's gravity, g. Since https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/deviation-vs-error.156715/ these quantities have accepted or true values, we can calculate the percent error between our measurement percent difference of the value and the accepted value with the formula Sometimes, we will compare the results of two measurements of the same quantity. For instance, we may use two different methods to determine percent difference physics the speed of a rolling body. In this case, since there is not one accepted value for the speed of a rolling body, we will use the percent difference to determine the similarity of the measurements. This is found by dividing the absolute difference of the two measured values by their average, or Physics Lab Tutorials If you have a question or comment, send an e-mail to Lab Coordinator: Jerry Hester Copyright © 2006. Clemson University. All Rights Reserved. Photo's Courtesy Corel Draw. Last Modified on 01/27/2006 14:25:18.
Community Forums > Physics > General Physics > We've just passed 300 Insights! View them here! What a resource! Dismiss Notice Dismiss Notice Join Physics Forums Today! The friendliest, high quality science and math community on the planet! Everyone who loves science is here! % Deviation vs. % Error? Feb 16, 2007 #1 rachelle % Deviation vs. % Error?? Hey guys, what's the difference between percent deviation and percent error?? I'm totally confused... how do I compare those two percentages? Any explanation or links that can help me with this so I can understand better is much appreciated! Thanks~ Rachelle rachelle, Feb 16, 2007 Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories on Phys.org •Unusual quantum liquid on crystal surface could inspire future electronics •When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light •Nanoantenna lighting-rod effect produces fast optical switches Feb 16, 2007 #2 jtbell Staff: Mentor Does this help? http://www.shodor.org/UNChem/math/stats/ jtbell, Feb 16, 2007 Feb 17, 2007 #3 rachelle Yes! Thank you :) But can you tell me one more thing... what does the percent deviation tell me? As oppose to my percent error..? For instance I get my percent deviation to be 5%, and my percent error = 11%. What does this tell me? Thanks in advance~ rachelle, Feb 17, 2007 Feb 17, 2007 #4 FredGarvin Science Advisor The deviation is based on the mean of the sample as being your point of reference for the measurement. The error is based on a theoretic value expected. The deviation doesn't have to be a theoretical expected value. It just happens to be the mean. Your results mean that the data you collected was skewed. The man of your data was not in line with the theoretical expected value. FredGarvin, Feb 17, 2007 Sep 20, 2011 #5 nmah Re: % Deviation vs. % Error?? jtbell said: ↑ Does this help? http://www.shodor.org/UNChem/math/stats/ this example have theoretical value which is 54 celcius.but what if we don't have theoretical value?how can