William W. answered • 08/31/20
Math and science made easy - learn from a retired engineer
This is actually a hard question because there are many ways of doing it. You would need to look to see how your teacher explained how you were to do it. The bottom line is that the volume of a cylinder is a calculated value involving squaring the radius/diameter and multiplying by the height. Both the radius (or diameter) and height have uncertainties based on the measuring device used. Then, you would need to "adjust" those uncertainties by some mathematical operation to account for the squaring and multiplication. The WORST CASE scenario is the take the smallest possible measurements and perform the volume calculation and then take the largest possible measurements and perform the calculation then that gives you the uncertainty range. However, there are statistical methods used to give better results.
