Physics307L:Schedule/Week 6 agenda: Difference between revisions

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-# Discussion of Lab #1
+__NOTOC__
-#* Official in-class exam is not practicable.  Therefore it is informal and ongoing (whenever we talk about things).
+==Discussion of final report==
-# Discussion of changes to course
+===Rough draft of final report due beginning of Week 12 (Nov. 14)===
-#* Rough draft of final report due beginning of Week 12 (Nov. 5)
+====Decide which of the first four labs you are interested enough in to do final report====
-#* Bonus points on final lab writeup given for contributions to wiki lab manual (a lot of you have a great start on this already)
+====Serious data analysis, thinking, and follow-on experiments required====
-# Calculating mean +/- standard error of the mean (aka standard error & standard deviation of them mean)
-#* This is the foundation: allow us to find the most likely value of a parameter, with an associated value.  Knowing how to do this is essential for more sophisticated things we will learn: error propagation, fitting functions, etc.
+==Principle of maximum likelihood==
-#* Central limit theorem (I): (Last week) distribution of averaged measurmeents ... (II): distribution of single measurement as a result of a bunch of small, independent, random errors.
+wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_principle
-#* Significant figures
+==[[/Uncertainties|Reporting measurements with uncertainties]]==
+==[[/Research stuff|Research stuff (Skipping this)]]==