silent_rock's Journal: error propagation

I forgot how to do error propagation, but I need to do it. All I remember is that I spent a lot of time doing error propagation for 15b labs. I remember thinking, "who the heck goes though all of this trouble for stupid error propagation?". sigh.

FYI: http://instructor.physics.lsa.umich.edu/ip-labs/tutorials/errors/prop.html
Having said that, error propagation can be easy and fun! OK, not really, but this discussion should get you through it with a minimum of blood, sweat, and tears.

Took me a few hours today to reach the answer for my error: 10E-05. Or something like that. On a log-log plot. Don't ask me if I got the units correctly. Who's going to check my work??!!

I finally got around to watching atao's copy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (I almost wrote "ether-nal" hahaha, atao chem geek). Although it did not make me cry throughout (like loopy), it sort of hit me hard afterwards. Don't know why exactly.

I feel the itch to buy some new music. Maybe some Rilo Kiley, atao gave me The Execution of All Things a couple years ago, I find it to be very comforting. (...crush all hopes of happiness...)

I hope I am not coming across as an unhappy person. I am so :-) :-) :-p

From "To see ourselves as others see us" in March 1 EOS, originally from Washington Post 30 Jan, Joel Achenbach.

Unlike a political speech, a science talk never beigns with a false note of self- deprecation or any attempt at humor whatsoever. Usually a scientist will speak in uber-jargon, which means the words must first be translated into jargon before the subsequent translation into ordinary language.

What happens in many sessions is that you go into a reverie, listening to the burble of a scientist, the words utterly incomprehensible but somehow reassuring, tumbling from the mountains of genius. The room is dark, and you remember fondly the days, decades ago, when after lunch you were permitted to lie down on your blanket and take a nap.

hee hee

[nspher]

i read that washington post quote to my labmates. i like uber-jargon.