One of the most basic things students do in a physics lab is to collect data and use that to build a model. Most of these models come in the form of a mathematical function. But here is the problem.

Come to lab (hopefully not late). Most likely listen to a boring (but short) lecture that seems similar to stuff that was also covered in lecture class – but it’s still confusing. Look at some new ...

Data is rarely so uniform and predictable that plotting data points creates a perfectly linear arrangement. Scatter charts might have wildly varying plots that create a seemingly random correlation ...

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