Lab 6: Propagated uncertainty in measurement
Date performed: September 7
Lab group: michaelflores, Alex, and Michael
Purpose: Intorduction to propagated error calculation
Theory: measure the density of metal cylinders to find propagated uncertainty
Apparatus: For this lab we measure the weight and length of two metal cylinders. We measure the length of the cylinders with metal object called a caliper. Then we took the partial derivatives of the measurements.



As you can see in the pictures we took the partial derivative of the height, mass, and diameter to form an equation for the uncertainty. Then we plug in the numbers and we were able to get accurate answer for both cylinders.