Physics, 21.07.2021 23:40 blondieb1722

Suppose your actual height is 5 feet and 5.2 inches. A tape measure which can be read tothe nearest 1/8 of an inch gives your height as 65 3/8 inches. The laser device at the clinic that givesreadings to the nearest hundredth of an inch says you are 65.31 inches. Required:
a. Which measuring device is more accurate?
b. Which measuring device is more precise?

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Answer from: Zayo1337

a) The laser device

b) The tape

Explanation:

First, there is a need to understand what accuracy and precision mean.

Accuracy is the closeness of a measurement to its true (pre-determined) value.

Precision is the closeness of repeated measurements to each other.

Since 1 feet = 12 inches, then, 5 feet and 5.2 inches would be equivalent to 65.2 inches. This value represents the true value of my height.

The tape measured the height as 65 3/8, which is equivalent to 65.375 inches.

The laser device measured the height as 65.31.

Error = true value - measured value

Absolute error from the tape = 65.2 - 65.375

= -0.175 inches

Absolute error from laser device = 65.2 - 65.31

= -0.11

a) The magnitude of error from the tape is more than that of the laser device. Hence, the laser device is said to be more accurate.

b) Even though there were just single readings from both instruments, the tape can be read to the nearest 1/8 of an inch and as such, can give more precisive measurements than the laser device.

Answer from: Quest

russian is not my first language, so i'm afraid i can't write out an answer in russian, but hopefully you can find a way to do so. here's my best translation of the problem: you're given a plot of a particle's position in one-dimensional space over time, and you're asked to find either the total distance traveled by the particle after 6 seconds had elapsed, or the total displacement of the particle after 6 seconds.

if you want the total distance traveled, you would first need to determine the particle's velocity as a function of time, then integrate that over the 6-second interval. we know the position function is quadratic with roots at 0 and 6, so we have

$x(t)=ax(x-6)$

where $a$ is unknown. because the position is parabolic, there is symmetry about the midpoint at $t=3$ , and we know that

$x(3)=10\implies -9a=10\implies a=-\dfrac{10}9$

so that the position function is

$x(t)=-\dfrac{10}9x(x-6)$

which means the velocity is

$v(t)=\dfrac{\mathrm dx}{\mathrm dt}=-\dfrac{20}9x+\dfrac{60}9$

then the total distance traveled is

$\displaystyle\int_{t=0}^{t=6}|v(t)|\,\mathrm dt=\left\{\int_{t-0}^{t=3}-\int_{t=3}^{t=6}\right\}v(t)\,\mathrm dt=20$

so the total distance traveled is 20 m.

on the other hand, if you want to find displacement: the particle starts at $x=0$ and ends at $x=0$ , so its displacement is 0.

Answer from: Quest

Hypothesis. why don’t you know this? i learned this stuff in like 5th grade

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