{"id":5845,"date":"2011-08-26T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/26\/new-paper-dance-investigating\/"},"modified":"2011-08-26T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T09:22:10","slug":"new-paper-dance-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/26\/new-paper-dance-investigating\/","title":{"rendered":"New Paper Dance: “Investigating Systematic Uncertainty and Experimental Design with Projectile Launchers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week before last, I finished writing up a pedagogical paper I’ve been meaning to write for some time, and sent it off to The Physics Teacher<\/cite><\/a>. A couple of days ago, it occurred to me that I could probably post that to the arxiv. So I did<\/a>, just before I left town for an extended weekend reliving my college days:<\/p>\n

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Investigating Systematic Uncertainty and Experimental Design with Projectile Launchers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The proper choice of a measurement technique that minimizes systematic and random uncertainty is an essential part of experimental physics. These issues are difficult to teach in the introductory laboratory, though: because most experiments involve only a single measurement technique, students are often unable to make a clear distinction between random and systematic uncertainties, or to compare the uncertainties associated with different techniques. In this paper, we describe an experiment suitable for an introductory college level (or advanced high school) course that uses velocity measurements to clearly show students the effects of both random and systematic uncertainties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m not going to post anything else substantive this weekend, but if you’re interested in the teaching of introductory physics, I hope you’ll find it worthwhile. If not, well, there are a lot of other blogs out there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The week before last, I finished writing up a pedagogical paper I’ve been meaning to write for some time, and sent it off to The Physics Teacher. A couple of days ago, it occurred to me that I could probably post that to the arxiv. So I did, just before I left town for an… Continue reading New Paper Dance: “Investigating Systematic Uncertainty and Experimental Design with Projectile Launchers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,13,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course_reports","category-education","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}