From 568fdb82b195e5d6f6ac91ac5b12ebba1b745f2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan C Cooper Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 23:04:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] added lab 1 description --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 04841bb..415706b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ The group shares the pass/fail grade for the "lab report" grade. ## Repository for laboratory notebooks +### Lab #1 - Measurements of machining precision and accuracy + +**Outline and figures at beginning of following lab** + +All measurements have traceable standards. There are seven base units in SI - +meter (length), second (time), Mole (amount of substance), Ampere (electric +current), Kelvin (temperature), Candela (Luminous intensity), and kilogram +(mass) [1](https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si/si-units). +Any measurement you make should have some method to check against a reference. +In this lab, we will use calipers that measure dimensions i.e. meter\*10$^{-3}$ +(length). Calipers can always be verified to work with gage blocks. + ### Lab #0 - Introduction to the Student t-test **Outline and figures due Wed 9/5 by 5pm**