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Homework and Exploration — Guide and How to Use These Notebooks

Short summary Collection of homework examples, exploratory notebooks, and early drafts. Use after core chapters. Each page is a self-contained exercise with explanations.

How to use this chapter - Treat items here as worked problems or extra practice. - Instructors can adapt these as homework with minor edits. - Work through core chapters first (Metrology and Uncertainty, Statistics, Calibration, Analog vs Digital).

Prerequisites Complete core chapters first (Metrology and Uncertainty, Statistics, Calibration).

Ordered reading (suggested)

  1. Self-training exercises — start here: core practice problems.
  2. Homework 1: Example Solution — worked solution showing expected analysis and reporting style.
  3. Exercise: Question 2, Example 3 — additional graded-style exercise.
  4. Run the random data generator and plot the scatter — generate your own data for homework practice.
  5. Compare normal and log-normal random variables — when Gaussian assumptions break down.
  6. Input-Output Relation of a First-Order System — dynamic-system exercise linking to Dynamic Signals.
  7. Doppler Shift — frequency-shift measurement example.

Suggested activity - Select one homework notebook per week and convert it into a short graded assignment with automated tests or solution notebook.