PHY 329: Experimental Methods in Physics

SUNY Cortland

Fall 2017

Statistics

• The free statistical software, R, can be downloaded from here. Once installed add packages using install.packages("packageName"), I recommend Hmisc and fastR.
• Run this R script to see a bit of functionality (instructions appear as comments at the top of the file).

Error Propagation

• Information and examples are available here

Homework

Due	Reading	Problems	Posted
Due	Reading	Problems	Posted
Aug. 30	What is Statistics		Aug. 29
Sept. 6	Chapter 1		Aug.29
Sept. 13	Chapter 2.1, 2.2 through 2.2.2, and 2.3	TBA	Aug. 29
Sept. 20	Chapter 2.7.1 and 2.8	TBA	Aug.29
Sept. 27	2.8 and paper #1		Oct. 3
Oct. 4	2.4, 3.4.1, 4.1		Oct. 3
Nov. 1		2.31, 2.43	Oct. 26

Final Exam Period Friday Dec. 15 at 8:30-10:30am.