SOLUTION: In determining the range of an acoustic source using the triangulation method, the time at which the spherical wave front arrives at a receiving sensor must be measured accurately.

Question 1177825: In determining the range of an acoustic source using the triangulation method, the time at which the spherical wave front arrives at a receiving sensor must be measured accurately. Measurement errors in these times can be modeled as possessing uniform probability distribution from −0.05 to 0.05 microseconds. What is the probability that a particular arrival time measurement will be in error by less than 0.01 microsecond? What does your answer
mean?
Thank you
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The pdf of the distribution is represented by
, since it is uniform

Hence .

What this means is that, the chance that the arrival time measurement error is at most 0.01 microsecond is 60%.
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