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I wanted to know how it is determined uncertainty

 
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Sep24-12, 06:55 AM   #18
 

I wanted to know how it is determined uncertainty


Sorry in my physics exercises i never heard about gaussian propagation, (talking about mechanics or electrical physics exercises) only about sig.figures...
Anyway on the web can'0t find anything.
Sep24-12, 08:03 AM   #19
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That should give a good idea, with the assumption that the uncertainties are not correlated. Usually that is a good approximation - there is no reason that the length measurement and the time measurement influence each other in the pendulum, for example.
Sep24-12, 11:02 AM   #20
 
is uncertainty applicable with the speed of light? like 3x10^8m/s≥c
Sep24-12, 11:33 AM   #21
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The speed of light in vacuum is exact (by definition) in SI units (and most other scientific systems I think), it does not have any uncertainty.
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