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The Half-Baked Method for Cooking of Experimental Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ralph G. Stanton
Ralph G. Stanton*
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo
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Students in Mathematics and Physics courses are commonly exposed to a method of treating data known as the "half-table method". The method is presented with encomiums by R. C. Dearle [1] and by Lucius Tuttle and John Satterly [2]. It can best be described by an illustration; since the determination of the period of a pendulum is one of the experiments most commonly used (and occurs in both [1] and [2]), let us borrow a set of data from [2] and some explanatory text from [1].

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 01 May 1959 , pp. 125 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1959

References

1. Dearle, R. C., The art of measurement, Science and Industry, December 1930 and April 1931.Google Scholar
2. Lucius Tuttle and John Satterly, The Theory of Measurements, (Longmans Green and Co 1925).Google Scholar