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Learning measurement uncertainty; could not find any online resources

I'm currently writing a lab report on Atwood's machine, and the gist of it is that $a=a_{g}\tfrac{\left ( m_{2}-m_{1} \right )}{\left ( m_{2}+m_{1} \right )}$. We're holding $\left (m_{2}+m_{1} ...
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How to approximate measurement uncertainty?

At the moment I use standard deviation of the mean to estimate uncertainty: where N is in hundreds and mean is a time series (monthly) mean. I present it then like this: for each element (month) ...