Physics A-Level

Experimental uncertainty and evaluation

What Experimental uncertainty and evaluation means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.

Definition of Experimental uncertainty and evaluation

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Using several colours gives a range of frequencies and reduces the effect of random uncertainty, and the value obtained is approximate because the threshold is not perfectly sharp and the emission wavelength has a spread.

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