Measurement Uncertainties Physical Parameters and Calibration of Instruments /

• Main Author: Gupta, S. V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Statistics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Numerical and Computational Physics.

This book fulfills the global need to evaluate measurement results along with the associated uncertainty. In the book, together with the details of uncertainty calculations for many physical parameters, probability distributions and their properties are discussed. Definitions of various terms are gi...

Table of Contents:

• Some Important Definitions
• Probability Functions
• Other Probability Functions
• Evaluation of Measurement Data
• Propagation of Errors/Uncertainty
• Uncertainty and Calibration of Instruments
• Calculation of Uncertainty
• Uncertainty in Calibration of a Surface Plate
• Uncertainty in Mass Measurement
• Uncertainty in Volumetric Measurement
• Uncertainty in Calibration of Some More Physical Instruments
• Uncertainty in Calibration of Electrical Instruments.