Crunch those Stats | Which ratio? | Math in Physics |
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What is the mean?
This is the name of the value found when you add up all the data values and then divide by the number of values you added
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What is SOHCAHTOA?
This is the mnemonic for the trigonometric ratios
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What is a vector?
This mathematical term has both magnitude and direction.
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What is the median?
This is a name for the middle number in a set of ordered numbers.
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What is degrees?
We use these units to measure angles
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What is 56mph?
This is the speed your speedometer would read in mph if you were traveling down the highway at 25 m/s. Hint: 1 mile is approximately 1600 m.
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What is the standard deviation?
This is the name for the spread of the data from the mean
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What is the inverse?
The key used to find the angle in the calculator
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What is 0.202s (or 202 ms)?
This is your reaction time if you were to drop a ruler, and it falls a distance of 20 cm before you catch it.
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What is 42?
The range of the number 20, 18, 52, 10, 44
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What is sine?
Use it when you want to know the opposite leg and you know the measure of the angle and hypotenuse.
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What was 6.7 m/s2?
Colonel Stapp did another test run where he went from 0 m/s to 100 m/s in 15s. This was his acceleration.
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What is 4?
This is the mean (or average) of Aaron's scores of 4, 5, 5, 2 and 4.
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What is alternate interior angles?
The reason for the angle of elevation to be equal to the angle of depression
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What is 15 degrees?
Light travels from air (n1 = 1.00) into an optical fiber with an index of refraction of n2 = 1.44. The incoming angle θ1 is 22o. This is the angle of refraction inside the fiber.
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