Physics307L:Schedule/Week 4 agenda/Coin Toss: Difference between revisions
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==Procedure== | ==Procedure== | ||
# Form groups of two | # Form groups of two | ||
# | # Flip ten coins at once and record number of heads | ||
# Repeat | # Repeat, report results | ||
* [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDRJNlNSMEJWU21MX3UyQXVMS3VHd2c&hl=en# Link to Google Spreadsheet for Central Limit Theorem introduction] | * [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDRJNlNSMEJWU21MX3UyQXVMS3VHd2c&hl=en# Link to Google Spreadsheet for Central Limit Theorem introduction] | ||
==Results== | ==Results== | ||
===2011 Coin Toss Results=== | ===2011 Coin Toss Results=== | ||
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDBWQnhwcUNfYmRMMG1fN3h6U25aLXc&output=html Google Spreadsheet] | [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AhLNnjMk2r_qdDBWQnhwcUNfYmRMMG1fN3h6U25aLXc&output=html Google Spreadsheet] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:42, 19 September 2011
Goals
- Continue encouraging discussion and contributions from all students
- Provide a background for discussing
- Probility functions
- Probility density functions
- Parent distributions
- Law of large numbers / Bernouilli's theorem
- Central limit theorem
- Uncertainty
- Reporting measurements with uncertainty
Procedure
- Form groups of two
- Flip ten coins at once and record number of heads
- Repeat, report results
