This note consists of Short Youtube Lecture Videos for each subtopic. Source: Andy Masley, IB Physics Teacher, https://andymasley.com/1-measurements-uncertainties/
1.1: Measurements in Physics
Lecture Videos:
(no equations given in IB test packet)
1.2: Uncertainties & Errors
Lecture Videos:
Equations Given in IB Test Packet:
Lecture Videos:
- How to Find the Number of Significant Figures in a Number
- Calculations with Significant Figures
- Variables, Units, the SI, Fundamental and Derived Units, and Prefixes
- Reducing Derived Units to Fundamental Units
- Converting Units with the Factor Label Method
(no equations given in IB test packet)
1.2: Uncertainties & Errors
Lecture Videos:
- Uncertainty Notation and the Range of Possible Values
- Absolute, Fractional, and Percent Uncertainty
- Propagating Uncertainty: Addition and Subtraction
- Propagating Uncertainty: Multiplication and Division
- Propagating Uncertainty: Powers and Roots
- Propagating Uncertainty in IB Physics Problems
- Measurement Uncertainty
- Data Tables (explains statistical uncertainty)
- Logger Pro in IB Physics
- The Average Line of Best Fit Equation (Includes Uncertainty of Gradients and Intercepts)
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1.3: VECTORS & SCALARS
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Equations Given in IB Test Packet:
Lecture Videos:
- Vectors vs. Scalars
- Labeling & Adding Vectors
- Recording the Angle of a Vector
- Finding the Angle of a Vector
- X & Y Components of Vectors
- Finding X and Y Components of Vectors Using Trig
- Adding Complex Vectors
- Trigonometry: What Trig Identities Mean
- Trigonometry: Finding the Missing Side of a Triangle
- Trigonometry: Inverse Trig Identities
- 3D Vector Notation
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