Galton board (bean machine)

Experiment no.: 0.6.3
Galtonbrett
The Galton board or bean machine (a board with rows of pins and around 2,000 balls) can be used to mechanically generate a binomial distribution. In this way it can be demonstrated how a measurement value (the initial ball position) is affected by noise from the collisions of the balls with obstacles.

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Set-up
Path single ball 1
Path single ball 2
Path single ball 3
Galton board (symmetrical), start
Galton board (symmetrical) in operation
Galton board (symmetrical), distribution
Galton board (tilted) in operation
Galton board (tilted), distribution

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