Heads Per Toss Lab Report

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Introduction This first laboratory experiment required the toss of a five separate pennies and determining how many of the five pennies would land with the heads facing up on the table. By using this method of tossing the coins, the class as a whole was able to compare their own data to other people’s data and see the different outcomes of each individual’s results. The data collected was a comparison of the average number of heads per toss versus the actual number heads that occurred. Though we all did our own experiments, the results of the class data in total was very similar to each of our own individual data. The experiment started out with each of us being grouped together to compare our individual results with those in our groups. Comparing the data between my group members, we noticed that the trend was most of the tosses resulted in majority two to three heads per toss. Data/Discussion…show more content…
Calculating the uncertainty for the mean I took the square root of the sum of the squared deviations of each measured value from the average value and divided it by the total number of tosses minus one. My results after the calculation is an average of 2.25 heads per toss with an uncertainty of plus or minus 1.19 heads. The group data collection was calculated using each member of the group’s average heads per toss in comparison to the number of heads. After calculating the average we got an average of 2.23 heads plus of minus 2.15 heads. Using the group results, we then compared our results to those of other groups to see if our data collection fits in to the appropriate bracket of

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