Timeline for Question on the uncertainty principle
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| Jul 29, 2013 at 8:38 | comment | added | Gremlin | It's because I thought about it some more and realised that in the uncertainty principle, it's the complete uncertainty interval that matters more. The first formula is more appropriate when you are trying to come up with the uncertainty on a quantity that depends on two independent measurements. It accounts for the fact that sometimes random fluctuations cancel each other out rather than always adding up. | |
| Jul 28, 2013 at 21:08 | vote | accept | 71GA | ||
| Jul 28, 2013 at 18:45 | vote | accept | 71GA | ||
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| Jul 28, 2013 at 18:42 | comment | added | 71GA | Can i ask you why did you change your original sugestion in an EDIT? | |
| Jul 28, 2013 at 15:22 | history | edited | Gremlin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2013 at 15:09 | comment | added | Gremlin | The wikipedia page is pretty good -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_uncertainty | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 23:32 | comment | added | 71GA | Can i ask you for an external link so i can read more about this error propagation. | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 17:03 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 27, 2013 at 16:43 | history | answered | Gremlin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |