Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
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Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3.3, Problem 15E
Refer to Exercise 5.
- a. Assume g = 9.80 m/s2 exactly, and that L = 0.855 ± 0.005 m. Estimate T, and find the relative uncertainty in the estimate.
- b. Assume L = 0.855 m exactly, and that T = 1.856 ± 0.005 s. Estimate g, and find the relative uncertainty in the estimate.
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