Admin: 1) Up-to-date syllabus on website (link in blackboard) 2) Lab 1 due next week. - Format not critical (for first lab). - Include all measurements somewhere. - Repeated (>5) measurements in separate file (xls,mat,m,txt,json,xml,...). - Final measurements with errors in standard form in pdf. - Images in pdf or as separate file. - Graphs in pdf. 3) Probably only 6 labs. 12 point for free. Review: 1) Error <=> Uncertainty - Unavoidable 2) Error estimate from a scale - Determine range, report as centered error. Error estimates: 1) Visual Scale 2) Repeated measurement: range or std 3) random vs systematic errors Standard form: 1) Significant figures of best estimate +/- Significant figures of centered error 2) fractional error Discrepancy (difference): 1) Overlapping error estimates - Can do better Error propagation: 1) +- errors add 2) */ fractional errors add 3) addition in quadrature Error in the mean 1) d=std(x)=1/sqrt(N)dx; 2) Conditions: random (symmetric) and uncorrelated