Lab 1: uncertainty analysis

For Wednesday's lab, we'll learn to count cards. Please note that we will start the lab at 10am, rather than 9am, since we will not need the entire period.

Actually, we'll use normal and 'stacked' decks to learn about standard deviation and uncertainty, which we'll use throughout the rest of the lab sessions. Please read the procedure (which includes in introduction to basic statistics) before Wednesday's lab session. This one is longer than usual ... future lab procedures will be much, much shorter.

Each week we will do three labs. As noted in the syllabus, your group will write one lab report per week on the experiment of your choosing, due the following Monday. A template for these reports will be provided. Example raw data for the two experiments you chose not to write about should be included as an appendix in your weekly report, and a portion of your grade will depend on your including this data. You do not need to analyze data from the other experiments or write about it, however.