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==Related Blog Post== | |||
* http://stevekochteaching.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-4-lecture-law-of-large-numbers.html | |||
==2011 Coin Toss Results== | |||
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDBWQnhwcUNfYmRMMG1fN3h6U25aLXc&output=html Google Spreadsheet] | |||
==Agenda for Lecture (items will be continued next week)== | ==Agenda for Lecture (items will be continued next week)== | ||
# Note about O-scope labs | # Note about O-scope labs | ||
#* | #* Example Shannon | ||
#* Emailing me when you're ready is essential! | #* Emailing me when you're ready is essential! | ||
# Note about labs this week and next ([[Physics307L:Schedule/Lab signup|Lab Signup Page]]) | # Note about labs this week and next ([[Physics307L:Schedule/Lab signup|Lab Signup Page]]) | ||
#* You can create your own lab if you have ideas! | #* You can create your own lab if you have ideas! | ||
# [[/Coin Toss|Group Exercise -- Coin Toss]] | |||
#* (This is as far as I will probably get during this lecture; expecting to discuss many of below items in context of group exercise) | |||
#* [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDRJNlNSMEJWU21MX3UyQXVMS3VHd2c&hl=en# Link to Google Spreadsheet for Central Limit Theorem introduction] | |||
# [[/Terminology|Introduction to terminology]] | # [[/Terminology|Introduction to terminology]] | ||
# [[/Calculating mean|Mean +/- error]] | # [[/Calculating mean|Mean +/- error]] | ||
# Probability density function | # Probability density function | ||
# Histogram (maybe use height distribution)? | # Histogram (maybe use height distribution)? | ||
Latest revision as of 09:17, 19 September 2011
Related Blog Post
2011 Coin Toss Results
Agenda for Lecture (items will be continued next week)
- Note about O-scope labs
- Example Shannon
- Emailing me when you're ready is essential!
- Note about labs this week and next (Lab Signup Page)
- You can create your own lab if you have ideas!
- Group Exercise -- Coin Toss
- (This is as far as I will probably get during this lecture; expecting to discuss many of below items in context of group exercise)
- Link to Google Spreadsheet for Central Limit Theorem introduction
- Introduction to terminology
- Mean +/- error
- Probability density function
- Histogram (maybe use height distribution)?
- Normal Distribution
- Central Limit Theorem
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustration_of_the_central_limit_theorem
- downloadable simulation: http://www.vias.org/simulations/simusoft_cenlimit.html
- Java dice rolling: http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/CLT.html
Agenda for Labs
- Spend about 2 hours figuring out how to set up the equipment and planning out the experiments. Record your goals for the experiments in your lab notebook.
- Do not start the experiment until you've had your safety quiz!
- Partnering up is not required, but is permitted this week.
