Resumen de Measuring Systematic Error with Curve Fits
Systematic errors are often unavoidable in the introductory physics laboratory. As has been demonstrated in many papers in this journal, such errors can present a fundamental problem for data analysis, particularly when comparing the data to a given model.1�3In this paper I give three examples in which my students use popular curvefitting software and adjust the theoretical model to account for, and even exploit, the presence of systematic errors in measured data.
