Question

#5.Which experiment that we did do you think was the most prone to random error, and which do you think was most prone to systematic error? Why was that the case for those experiments?

Answer 1

Hi buddy!

You havent yet shared the details of the conducted experiment. If you have so then you can send them in the comments and I shall help you based on the experiment in particular.

But for now I shall share with you what decides random errors and systematic errors. This should probably help you to classify the results of your experiments under random and systematic errors.

Random error

Random errors which may happen during experiments are a result of unknown and unpredictible changes in the experiment observations. These happen due to the experimental apparatus or because of the environment in which the experiment is conducted.

Examples : noise occuring in circuit of electronic measuring instrument

Systematic errors

Systematic errors are usually a result of the measuring instruments. Either it is faulty or has a problem with its data handling system. or it has been used inccorectly by the conducter of experiment.

There are two types of systematic errors

1) Zero-setting error or called as "offset" in which there are inconsistencies in measuring zero

2) Scale factor error or the "multiplier" is where the error occurs from.

Go through the above description before classifying the experimental data!

Thanks and all the best!