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Murphy’s Law
Aim: IB Criteria Assessed
Murphy’s Law states that if there are a number of possible outcomes to Planning (a), Planning (b), Data
a situation, the actual outcome will be the worst possible one! Collection, Data Processing,
Evaluation
One application of this law is breakfast. If you drop your toast, it will Criteria Aspect Level
always land jam side down. assessed 1 2 3 awarded
Pl (a)
Apparatus :
Anything you need to perform the experiment to your plan. Pl (b)
DC
Planning:
Design a procedure to test Murphy’s Law that includes appropriate use DPP
of apparatus for the control, collection and analysis of data. This CE
procedure should include the following sections.
Data Collection:
• Show the results for the experiment in a suitable table. Include uncertainties.