Lesson: Measurement Uncertainty and Resolution Physics • First Year of Secondary School

In this lesson, we will learn how to define resolution-based and random measurement uncertainties, and show how they affect the values of measurements.

Lesson Plan

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.