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01 Standard Deviation Labreport

The document is a lab report for an experiment on spring constants. It includes tables with displacement and force measurements for 7 observations. It asks students to plot a graph from the data, calculate the percent error between theoretical and experimental spring constants, and determine the standard deviation of the displacement measurements to quantify the spread of the data.

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01 Standard Deviation Labreport

The document is a lab report for an experiment on spring constants. It includes tables with displacement and force measurements for 7 observations. It asks students to plot a graph from the data, calculate the percent error between theoretical and experimental spring constants, and determine the standard deviation of the displacement measurements to quantify the spread of the data.

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00 Standard Deviation Labreport

Student name: karam Student ID:

Part A: (Excel graph) [6 points]

Q1: complete the following table:

Spring Spring constant (average)


Number of Displacement x Displacement x constant w
Force (N)
observations (cm) (m) 𝐹
𝑘=
𝑥
𝑆𝑢𝑚
1 10 0.1 0.05 0.5 Average =
number of observations

2 12 0.12 0.1 0.833 1.06

3 16 0.16 0.17 1.06

4 18 0.18 0.2 1.11

5 22 0.22 0.27 1.22 Slope:

6 24 0.24 0.31 1.29

7 26 0.26 0.37 1.42

Sum =7.433

Q2: Use the previous table to plot graph on Excel and then post your graph as a photo:
the following points will help you to get great graph:
1. Use displacement in (x-axis)
2. Use Force in (y-axis)
3. Write the title
4. Write the name of each axis plus unit
5. Find the slope.

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Q3: If you know that the Spring constant is 1.9 N/m what is the percentage of error between theoretical one
(1.9 N/m) and the experimental one that you got from the graph (slope)?

Use this formula:


|𝑘𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜 − 𝑘𝑒𝑥𝑝 |
𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑘 = × 100 = ____0.7________%
𝑘𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜

• (k theo ) is theoritical Spring constant


• (k exp ) is experimental Spring constant

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Part B: (Standard Deviation) [6 points]

• (𝜎) is the satndard deviation


• (𝑛) is the number of observation
• (𝑥̅ ) is the mean (average)
•

What is the physical meaning of “standard deviation being close to zero”?


A standard deviation close to zero indicates that data points are close to the mean

Q4: Fill out the following table

Number of
𝒙 ̅
𝒙 Calculating of
observations ̅
𝒙−𝒙 ̅ )𝟐
(𝒙 − 𝒙 Standard Deviation
n Observation Mean
∑𝐱 -1.8x10^-4 3.24x10^-8 ̅)𝟐
∑(𝒙−𝒙
1 0.0025 ̅ = mean =
𝒙 𝝈=√
𝑛 (𝒏−𝟏)
3.2x10^-4 1.024x10^-7
2 0.0030 ̅ = 2.68𝑥10^ − 3
𝒙

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1.2x10^-4 1.44x10^-8 𝝈: 𝟏. 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝒙𝟏𝟎^
3 0.0028
− 𝟒_______
-2.8x10^-4 7.84x10^-8
4 0.0024
2x10^-5 4x10^-10
5 0.0027
sum of ̅)𝟐
Sum of (𝒙 − 𝒙
observation ∑(

∑𝐱 𝟐. 𝟐𝟖𝒙𝟏𝟎^ − 𝟕________
= ___0.0134__

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Q5: From the previous table we can write 𝒙̅ ∓ 𝝈 so, ____x ̅=2.68x10^-3____ ∓ ___ 1.193x10^-4_

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