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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This introductory textbook explains the concepts and methods of data and error analysis needed for laboratory experiment write-ups, especially physics and engineering experiments. The book contains the material needed for beginning students, e.g., first year university students, college students (enrolled on a certificate or diploma course) and even A-level students. Nevertheless, it also covers the required material for higher year university laboratories, including the final year. Only essential concepts and methods needed for the day-to-day performance of experiments and their subsequent analysis and presentation are included and, at the same time, presented as simply as possible. Non-essential detail is avoided. Chapter five is a stand-alone introduction to probability and statistics aimed at providing a theoretical background to the data and error analysis chapters one to four. Computer methods are introduced in Chapter six. The author hopes this book will serve as a constant reference.
Keywords
- Data analysis for practical classes
- Physics laboratory companion
- Companion for student experiments
- Engineer's laboratory companion
- Error analysis
- Dimensional analysis
- Graph drawing
- Vernier scale
- Systems of units
- Points-in-pairs
- Laboratory experiment write-up
- Statistical analysis of experiments
- Physics lab handbook
- Basics of error analysis
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Panayiotis Nicos Kaloyerou
About the author
Prof. Panayiotis Nicos Kaloyerou was born on 22/11/1954 in Larnaka, Cyprus. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1985 from Birkbeck College, London University, under the supervision of Prof. David Bohm, in which, based on Bohm's original idea, the Causal Interpretation of Boson Fields was developed. His first academic position was a Royal Society Fellowship held at the Institut Henri Poincaré (1987 - 1988). From 1990 - 1993, Kaloyerou held a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. From 1993 to the present he has worked mostly in physics departments in Africa: The University of Swaziland (1993 - 1996), The University of Botswana (1996 - 2001), and The University of Zambia (2005 - present). His main publications include two Physics Reports articles: An Ontological Basis for the Quantum Theory: a Causal Interpretation of Quantum Fields, with D, Bohm and B. J. Hiley, (1987) and The Causal Interpretation of the Electromagnetic Field (1994).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basic Concepts of Data and Error Analysis
Book Subtitle: With Introductions to Probability and Statistics and to Computer Methods
Authors: Panayiotis Nicos Kaloyerou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95876-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95875-0Published: 03 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95876-7Published: 24 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 259
Number of Illustrations: 363 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Classical and Continuum Physics, Mathematical and Computational Engineering