{"id":7184,"date":"2020-10-14T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T12:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsphysics.co.uk\/usefullinks\/?p=635"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:41:13","slug":"ah-uncertainties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/ah-uncertainties\/","title":{"rendered":"AH Uncertainties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a presentation I gave on AH Uncertainties for the IoP. It was the end of term and that&#8217;s why I am nearly falling asleep. I had to update it as I had indeed taken the absolute and not fractional uncertainty in T to double for the uncertainty in T<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/470128824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/470128824<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"IoP AH Uncertainties v2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/470128824?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"751\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a1739fd7-464a-4a66-84b5-e184b200fafe\" href=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pendulum-for-Uncertainties-corrected-for-website-1.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pendulum for Uncertainties corrected<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pendulum-for-Uncertainties-corrected-for-website-1.xlsx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a1739fd7-464a-4a66-84b5-e184b200fafe\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above file Pendulum for uncertainties corrected is an excel sheet where you can look to see how the formulae are created to complete the analysis of your experiment. I have used an example of a simple pendulum to work out the individual uncertainty in each point. In this experiment the overall uncertainty is the uncertainty in the gradient which is found using LINEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2fd8775d-138e-404f-b64f-6972f7fd7ddf\" href=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ah-uncertainties-experiments-2020-2.docx\">ah uncertainties experiments 2020 (2)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ah-uncertainties-experiments-2020-2.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2fd8775d-138e-404f-b64f-6972f7fd7ddf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-66ade2ba-1822-4bf8-8288-4c6b0610dc1f\" href=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AH-Physics-exp-write-up-1.doc\">AH Physics exp write up-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/AH-Physics-exp-write-up-1.doc\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-66ade2ba-1822-4bf8-8288-4c6b0610dc1f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Updated 24th March 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a presentation I gave on AH Uncertainties for the IoP. It was the end of term and that&#8217;s why I am nearly falling asleep. I had to update it as I had indeed taken the absolute and not fractional uncertainty in T to double for the uncertainty in T2. https:\/\/vimeo.com\/470128824 The above file&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[792,1233,1198,778],"tags":[779,770,1205,1206,776,70,1207,1184,84,635,1208],"ppma_author":[1267],"class_list":["post-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project","category-projectbackground","category-resource","category-upsnanduncertainties","tag-ah","tag-ah-physics","tag-clpl-session","tag-information-for-teachers-on-ah-uncertainties","tag-iop","tag-physics","tag-physics-coach","tag-scottish-physics","tag-sqa","tag-uncertainties","tag-uncertainties-at-advanced-higher","vs-blog blog-single wow fadeInUp"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":1267,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"n5","display_name":"Mrs Physics","avatar_url":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OK-scaled.png","author_category":"","first_name":"Mrs","last_name":"Physics","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}