Conceptsignal drift
Signal Drift
A common source of systematic error in experimental physics, referring to the slow variation over time of a measurement reference or response, which may be caused by factors such as temperature fluctuations, equipment aging, and magnetic field instability.
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Oct 30
The initial experimental results were consistent with the theoretical predictions, but the agents found, when repeating the reference measurement, that the signal had drifted during data acquisition.
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