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Error Analysis Assignment (do it now!!)
The two-week cycle of PHY140Y labs starts on the SECOND week of term. For the first few weeks all PHY140Y labs will take place in MP (2nd floor, undergraduate wing). At the Friday lecture of the first week, you will be given most of the information you will need. By the end of the first week of term you must know the lab section that you will attend.
The lab sections are denoted by P0x1y or P5x1y, where x denotes the day of the week you have chosen, and y denotes week 1 or 2 of the lab’s two week cycle - the first week of term is week 1, and the labs start in week 2 (see the Schedule for the year). You will attend the lab on alternate weeks on your chosen weekday which will be one of:
Wednesdays 2 - 5 pm : P0311 or P0312
Thursdays 1 - 4 pm : P0411 or P0412
You will come to the lab for the first time at the time listed for your first tutorial in PHY140Y. At this introductory session you will have the opportunity to play with the equipment that you will be using in the first few experiments that all members of the class will do. The regular 02 lab sessions will start later the same week, the 01 sessions in the week after.
Before you come to your first session of the lab you will need to obtain:
• the Physics Laboratory Manual (PHY140Y and PHY180F/182S) and the Physics Laboratory Notebook, a bound lab notebook in which you will record all your experimental work. The manual and Notebook are available as a shrink-wrapped package in the University Textbook store.
• an electronic calculator: choose one which can calculate statistical functions (mean values, standard deviations, etc. of a set of numbers). If it provides also the values of scientific constants, so much the better. Bring along the instruction manual for your calculator until you are confident you can use it properly for the statistical calculations.
• a good clear plastic ruler of at least 30 centimetres in length (the smaller versions are very limited), a sharp pencil, and a smoothly writing pen. You do not, however, need a lab coat!
The main goal of the lab is to give you an appreciation of the power of experimental science in the development of our knowledge about the physical world.
Specifically, on the way to this goal, the lab IS DESIGNED to help you develop skills to :
solve practical problems and design intelligent experiments
The lab IS NOT DESIGNED to :
You have to complete and hand in this assignment to your demonstrator
within the first two weeks of term.Go to http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/ErrorAnalysis/
Read the text, which contains a link to the .pdf version, and do the Exercises 3.1 through 14.2. Print out and enter your answers on the .pdf forms provided on the link to the web pages; these pages are the only acceptable ones for the assignment. Hand the completed forms to your demonstrator on or before your SECOND lab session.
Tips:
- The earlier you do the assignment, the sooner you will be able to use the information for your work in the lab.
- The earlier you do the assignment, the less chance there will be that you will be overwhelmed by assignments in your other classes
- You may find that your learning is maximized if you do the assignment at two or three sittings, rather than attempting it at just one.
- This is a good time for you to read the University's policies on cheating and plagiarism (see also the Glossary item in this document on Independence of Work). Apart from the damage that such practices will do to your sense of moral worth and education, the University applies very heavy penalties to those found guilty of representing others' work as their own.
- BE WARNED! This assignment is intended to represent your work and yours alone!