A ball is thrown in the air and 5 different students are individually measuring the time it takes to fall back down using stopwatches. The times obtained by each student are the following: 6.2s, 6.0s, 6.4s, 6.1s, 5.8s.What is the uncertainty of the result ?
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a
±0.3
b
±0.4
c
±0.2
d
±0.1
answer is A.
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Detailed Solution
The range is 6.4-5.8 = 0.6 second and the uncertainty is half the range, so the answer ±0.3 is second.