PHY.1:4.6 - Use the comparison and follow a changed question

Translate the obtained result into the original quantity, position and time. State the physical conditions on which that translation depends. A short derivation can supply the whole explanation; another contributor needs only the settings, correspondence and unresolved premises that change their use.

If a material experiment performs the comparison, include the effects of preparing, driving and reading it where they affect the inference. C.29.3 supplies this connection when the physical evolution performs a computation. A numerical solution has its own discretization and calculation errors under C.29.2. Keep those errors separate from a changed physical mechanism.

For a changed question, revisit the result first. Asking about a different location, time, range or intervention can make a previously omitted contribution relevant. Retain the conditions that still apply and reconstruct the affected comparison. B.5.MPC.R helps locate a failure across the physical account, mathematical representation and computation.

The useful continuation can be a proposed experiment, a design choice, an interpreted observation, a narrower claim or a new physical question. When the comparison suggests a different way for a team to obtain its result, use ME.7 to describe the proposed operations and their relations. ME.12 checks the claims on which that composition and its description rely and returns a correction to the affected contribution.