Analysis and Presentation of Experimental Results With Examples, Problems and Programs /

• Main Authors: Christodoulides, Costas (Author), Christodoulides, George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Chemistry.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Engineering.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Engineering, general.

This book is intended as a guide to the analysis and presentation of experimental results. It develops various techniques for the numerical processing of experimental data, using basic statistical methods and the theory of errors. After presenting basic theoretical concepts, the book describes the m...

Table of Contents:

• Basic statistical concepts
• Measurement errors
• A though experiment
• The statistical analysis of experimental results
• The presentation of numerical results
• The propagation of errors
• The three basic probability distributions
• The statistics of radioactivity
• Elements from the theory of errors
• Comparison and rejection of measurements
• The method of least squares
• Graphs
• The written report of the results of an experiment
• Appendix 1. Least squares straight line y =α + λ x . The errors in α and λ
• Appendix 2. Dimensional analysis
• Appendix 3. The use of random numbers in finding values of a variable x which are distributed according to a given probability density function f(x)
• Appendix 4. Values of fundamental physical constants
• Answers to the problems
• List of programs and code samples
• Index.