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Past exam of the physics A course of the University of Cambridge 2016 Paper 1 Section A 4 Solution by
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At the central values, . For independent input standard errors, linear propagation givesThe angular derivative here is with respect to radians, so . At , the derivative is one, andThus , with the stated measurement uncertainty interpreted as one standard error. Correlated inputs would require a covariance term; their correlation is not supplied.
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