Lesson: Measurement Uncertainty and Resolution Physics

Students will be able to

• identify the resolution of a measuring device and the precision of measurements made with it,
• identify the uncertainty of a measurement due to the resolution of the measuring instrument that made the measurement,
• identify the number of significant figures in a value,
• determine to an appropriate precision the result of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing values that have a given precision,
• convert between absolute and percentage uncertainty values,
• determine the random uncertainty of a set of values.