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Please post your result and the official result if known.

Then I misinterpreted your last diagram. I now presume it is a top view. That being so, a given movement of the piston raises twice...

The lower portion is not raising any water, only moving it sideways.

Just a follow-up on the equation I gave in post #18… I felt it was surprisingly inelegant, then I realised it could be rewritten as...

Part of the problem is that there are two common systems which many (most) conflate. Either imply the uncertainty from the number of...

When I was a practicing EE, none of this ever made sense to me. These problems rarely mention the probability distribution of the data...

It depends what you mean by the uncertainty. In many contexts you want the statistical uncertainty, i.e. standard deviation. If X and Y...

The horizontal forces on it are the friction from the floor, the pull of the rope, and the normal force from the wall. The first two...