The Height of the Tower

David M. Harrison - November 2001

Here we summarise the results of 1st year Physics student measurements of the height of the Physics tower.

One result reported that the tower was 6,314.976 ± 479 m tall. For comparison, the height of the CN tower is 553 m. This student's result, which also demonstrates a lack of understanding of significant figures, has been dropped from the dataset.

Here is a plot of the height of the building with claimed errors. The data are presented in an essentially random order.

Here are some statistics for the measurements:

Mean
Quartiles
Minimum
Maximum
	278

Finally we show a histogram of the results: