6. Applied Methods and Capstones

Laboratory Skills — Quiz

Test your understanding of laboratory skills with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

Which component is classified as a Type B uncertainty source in an uncertainty budget?

Question 2

Which term describes the systematic deviation of the average of repeated measurements from the true value of the measurand?

Question 3

A calibration yields the corrected resistance formula $R_{true}=0.995\,R_{read}+0.2\,\Omega$. If $R_{read}=100.0\,\Omega$, what is $R_{true}$?

Question 4

Method A for flow measurement has repeatability 0.2% and reproducibility 0.5%; Method B has repeatability 0.3% and reproducibility 0.4%. Which method has lower combined standard uncertainty?

Question 5

For an analog-to-digital converter with quantization step $\Delta=1$ count, what is the standard uncertainty due to quantization?