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    This document contains a practice assessment with multiple questions about uncertainties and errors in measurement. It asks the student to calculate uncertainties, percentages, and results taking uncertainties into account for various measurements of length, area, time, speed, and data from a falling paper helicopter experiment. It requires graphing the helicopter data and determining the slope, intercept, and their uncertainties from the line of best fit.

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    Topic 1.

    2 Uncertainties and errors


    Formative Assessment
    NAME: _________________________________ TEAM:__
    THIS IS A PRACTICE ASSESSMENT. Show formulas, substitutions, answers (in spaces
    provided) and units!
    For questions 1. through 4.
    consider the line shown
    here:
    1. What is the measured length of this line in mm? Use the amount of significant
    figures a wooden meter stick is capable of supplying.
    1. _________________
    2. What is the precision of this measurement?
    _________________

    2.

    3. If the above line is one side of a perfect square, what is the area of that square,
    taking into account the correct number of significant figures and the correct
    units? Note that area is length times width, and the length equals the width in a
    square.
    3. _________________
    4. What is the raw uncertainty in your answer from problem 3?
    _________________

    4.

    A student measures a line to be 3.8 cm 0.1 cm.


    5. Find the absolute uncertainty in the measurement.
    _________________
    6. Find the raw uncertainty in the measurement.
    _________________

    5.
    6.

    7. Find the fractional uncertainty in the measurement.


    _________________
    8. Find the percentage uncertainty in the measurement.
    _________________

    7.
    8.

    9. A flagpole is placed on the roof of a house. A student measures the flagpole to


    be 4.25 m 0.05 m. The same student measures the height from the ground to
    the base of the flagpole to be 6.40 m 0.15 m. If the flagpole is mounted
    vertically upward (straight up), how far is the tip of the flagpole above the
    ground. Be sure to use significant figures and include a raw uncertainty with your
    answer.
    9.
    _________________

    Topic 1.1 Measurements in physics


    Formative Assessment
    NAME: _________________________________ TEAM:__

    10.A car travels 250 m 15 m in 12.2 s 0.2 s. Calculate its speed. Be sure to use
    significant figures and include a raw uncertainty with your answer.
    10. ________________

    A table of data was created by a student during an experiment in which a paper


    helicopter was dropped from various heights.
    11.

    Complete
    the
    last column of the
    table.

    Height
    H/m
    H = 0.1
    m

    Fall Time
    Ti / s
    Ti = 0.2 s
    Trial 2

    Average
    Fall
    Time
    T/s
    Ti = ______

    Trial 1
    Trial 3
    12.Does it appear that
    the student has
    1.0
    1.4
    1.7
    1.6
    done
    the
    right
    1.5
    2.0
    2.2
    1.8
    number of trials
    2.0
    2.4
    2.7
    2.7
    and variations to
    2.5
    3.1
    3.7
    3.4
    satisfy the internal
    3.0
    3.9
    3.8
    4.2
    assessment requirements of the IBO? Be sure to explain very clearly your
    reasoning.
    12. _________________________________________________
    13.Create a graph which plots Average Fall Time vs. Height. Be sure to label the
    graph properly.
    13. ____See graph____
    14.On the same graph sketch the vertical error bars on each point.
    ____See graph____

    14.

    15.On the same graph sketch in your line of best fit.


    ____See graph____

    15.

    16.Calculate the slope of the line of best fit. Be sure to include the units.
    ________________

    16.

    17.From your graph, determine the intercept. Include its units.


    ________________

    17.

    18.On the same graph sketch in the maximum and minimum slopes, using the first
    and last error bars as your guide.
    18. ____See graph____

    Topic 1.1 Measurements in physics


    Formative Assessment
    NAME: _________________________________ TEAM:__
    19.Calculate the minimum and maximum slopes. Be sure to include the units. 19.
    ________________
    ________________
    20.Calculate the uncertainty of the slope.
    ________________

    20.

    21.What are the intercepts of the lines representing the minimum and maximum
    slopes?
    21.
    ________________
    ________________
    22.Calculate the uncertainty of the intercept.
    ________________

    22.

    23.State, in words, the slope (and uncertainty) of your graph and its physical
    meaning.

    24.State, in words, the intercept (and uncertainty) of your graph and its physical
    meaning.

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