1st Year Undergraduate Experiments in Physical Chemistry
X.2 An Introduction to Experiment Design and Experimental Error
Measurement is a central task in science; indeed, we might consider measurements to be the "products" of physical chemistry in the same way that samples are often the products of an organic laboratory exercise.
This experiment introduces the analysis of experimental measurements. In it, you will carry out a number of tasks, many of which will be only incompletely described, so you need not only to consider what errors might arise in the measurements, but will also need to consider how to design simple experiments.
The different parts of the experiment are spread between the lower and upper Teaching Labs; the instructions make clear where you should go to complete each part.
Relevant Web Links
Statistics for analytical chemistry
(Widener University)
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Roundoff error (Wolfram Research)
Instructions for this experiment are provided in the 1st year Laboratory Manual.
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(updated October 17, 2007).
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Updated October 17, 2007.