Analysis of Measurement Uncertainties 1100-1AF27

After completing the course student:

KNOWLEDGE

1. Knows what are the standards for estimating and presenting uncertainties of measurements accepted in natural sciences.
2. Knows the standards for describing experimental set-ups and presenting experimental results accepted in natural sciences.

SKILLS

1. Presents experimental results in the form of graphs or histograms.
2. Uses graphs and histograms to detect relations between measured quantities.
3. Estimates uncertainties of measurements.
4. Uses least-squares method to estimate parameters of linear relations between measured quantities.
5. Uses statistical tests: the 3σ test and the χ²
test.

Positive note for a test in solving typical, simple problems in data-analysis.

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1. J. R. Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992.
2. G. L. Squires, Practical Physics, McGraw-Hill, London, 1976.

Further reading:

1. W. T. Eadie, D. Drijard, F. E. James, M. Roos, and B. Sadoulet, Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1971
2. S. Brandt, Data Analysis, Springer Verlag, New York, 1999.
3. W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, Wiley, 2008.

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