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Vern Lindberg
This item is a tutorial on Uncertainties and Error Propagation. Topics covered include Systematic versus Random Error, Determining Random Errors, Relative and Absolute error, Propagation of errors, Rounding answers properly, and Significant figures. A list of well illustrated problems are embedded throughout the tutorial.
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Author = "Vern Lindberg",
Title = {Uncertainties and Error Propagation},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {1 May 2025},
Month = {July 1, 2000},
Year = {2000}
}
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