Assessing uncertainties in a simple and cheap experiment

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 615-622

  De Souza, Paulo A ^a   Brasil, Gutemberg Hespanha ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STUDENTS;

MATERIAL DENSITY; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PHYSICS LABORATORIES; PING PONG BALL; RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS; SIMPLE++; UNCERTAINTY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649875372     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/30/3/018     Document Type: Article

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