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Researching Physics: skills of scientific inquiry

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How do physicists quote a measured result honestly, and how big is the doubt attached to it?

Units, prefixes and uncertainties: scale-reading, random and systematic uncertainties, mean and approximate random uncertainty, percentage uncertainty, and combining uncertainties by adding in quadrature.
An SQA Higher Physics answer on the skills of scientific inquiry, covering scale-reading, random and systematic uncertainties, the mean and approximate random uncertainty, percentage uncertainty, and combining uncertainties by adding in quadrature for the question paper and the assignment.
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