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Mathematics For Machine Technology

8th Edition

ISBN:9781337798310

Author:Peterson, John.

Publisher:Peterson, John.

Chapter29: Tolerance, Clearance, And Interference

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 16A: Spacers are manufactured to the mean dimension and tolerance shown in Figure 29-12. An inspector...

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Before it was a defined quantity, separate groups of researchers independently obtained the following five results (all in km s−1 ) during experiments to measure the speed of light c: 299795 ± 5 299794 ± 2 299790 ± 3 299791 ± 2 299788 ± 4 Determine the best overall result which should be reported as a weighted mean from this set of measurements of c, and find the uncertainty in that mean result.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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