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Basic Measurement Engineering Tutorial 1: Exercise 1

This document contains 7 exercises on basic measurement engineering concepts. The exercises cover determining mean, median, mode and standard deviation for data sets, calculating probabilities for normal distributions, and estimating systematic and random errors from measurement data.

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Basic Measurement Engineering Tutorial 1: Exercise 1

This document contains 7 exercises on basic measurement engineering concepts. The exercises cover determining mean, median, mode and standard deviation for data sets, calculating probabilities for normal distributions, and estimating systematic and random errors from measurement data.

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Basic Measurement engineering

Tutorial 1
Exercise 1

Determine the mean, median and modal values for the set: {3, 8, 10, 7, 5, 14, 2, 9, 8}

Exercise 2

Determine the standard deviation from the mean of the set of numbers: {35, 22, 25, 23, 28, 33,
30}

Exercise 3

The values of capacitances, in microfarads, of ten capacitors selected at random from a large
batch of similar capacitors are: 34.3, 25.0, 30.4, 34.6, 29.6, 28.7, 33.4, 32.7, 29.0 and 31.3
Determine the standard deviation from the mean for these capacitors,

Exercise 4

Vehicle speeds at a highway location have a normal distribution with a mean of 65 mph and a
standard deviation of 5 mph.

a) What is the probability that a randomly selected car is going 73 mph or less?

b) What is the probability that a car is going 60 mph or less?

Exercise 5

Suppose we have a normal curve distribution with mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 8.
What is the probability that a randomly selected has a rate greater than 85.

Exercise 6
In a calibration test, 10 measurements using a digital voltmeter have been made o f the
voltage of a battery that is known to have a true voltage of 6.11 V. The readings are: 5.98,
6.05, 6.10, 6.06, 5 .99, 5.96, 6.02, 6.09, 6.03 and 5.99 V.
a) Estimate the systematic and maximum random errors caused by the voltmeter.

Exercise 7
You find a micrometer (a thickness-measuring device) of unknown origin and use it to
measure the diameter of a steel rod that is known to have a diameter of 0.5000 in. You use the
micrometer to make 10 independent measurements of the rod diameter, and the results are
0.4821 ,0.4824, 0.4821, 0.4821, 0.4820, 0.4822, 0.4821, 0.4822, 0.4820, and 0.4822.
a) the systematic error and the maximum random error in these measurements.

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