Doubt-free uncertainty in measurement an introduction for engineers and students /
This volume presents measurement uncertainty and uncertainty budgets in a form accessible to practicing engineers and engineering students from across a wide range of disciplines. The book gives a detailed explanation of the methods presented by NIST in the GUM Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement. E...
| Main Author: | Ratcliffe, Colin, |
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| Other Authors: | Ratcliffe, Bridget,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer,
[2014]
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1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Terminology""; ""Measurand""; ""True Value""; ""True Value and Uncertainty Interval""; ""Confidence, Significance and Coverage Factor (k-factor)""; ""Type A and Type B Uncertainties""; ""Systematic and Random Uncertainties""; ""Is it an Error or an Uncertainty? ""; ""Elemental Uncertainties ""; ""Calibration""; ""Measured or Calculated Quantities? ""; ""Propagation of Uncertainty""; ""Standard Uncertainty and Expanded Uncertainty""; ""Root Sum of the Squares (RSS)""; ""The Big Picture""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Type A and Type B Elemental Uncertainties""
- ""Random Uncertainty""""Repeatable, or Systematic, Uncertainty""; ""Type A and Type B Elemental Uncertainty""; ""Sources of Elemental Uncertainty ""; ""Accuracy-Pandora�s Box? ""; ""Final reminder ""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Standard Uncertainty of a Measurement""; ""Finding the Standard Uncertainty when an Uncertainty Is Quoted at a Certain Level of Confidence""; ""Finding the Standard Uncertainty when an Elemental Uncertainty Is Given as a Standard Deviation with No Information About the Sample Size""
- ""Finding the Standard Uncertainty when the Uncertainty Is Given as a Standard Deviation and the Sample Size Is also Given""""Finding the Standard Uncertainty when the Elemental Uncertainty has a Known Statistical Distribution""; ""Combining Several Standard Uncertainties to find the Standard Uncertainty for a Single Measured Quantity""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Expanded Uncertainty of a Measurement and an Uncertainty Budget for a Single Measurement""; ""Expanded Uncertainty, U""; ""Example""; ""Changing the Level of Confidence""; ""An Uncertainty Budget""; ""Chapter 5""
- ""Propagation of Uncertainty & An Uncertainty Budget Example""""General Principles""; ""Absolute and Relative Uncertainty""; ""Uncertainty Budget�How to Use the Uncertainty Analysis to Improve the Accuracy of a Measurement Process""; ""Uncertainty Budget Example: Radiation Heat Transfer""; ""Conclusions""; ""Earlier Examples Revisited""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Sensitivity by Perturbation""; ""Returning to the CNC Cooling Fluid Problem""; ""Case Study""; ""A Fully Worked Example Developing the Uncertainty Analysis for a Process, Including a Discussion of Uncertainty Budgets""
- ""The Big Picture """"Description of the Experiment to Measure Viscosity ""; ""Measurements ""; ""Uncertainty Analysis ""; ""Transducer Uncertainty ""; ""Summary of Transducer Standard Uncertainties ""; ""Uncertainty of Measurement ""; ""Propagation of Uncertainty ""; ""Uncertainty Budgets ""; ""Uncertainty Budget Summary ""; ""Appendix""; ""The Mathematics of Resolution and Truncation ""; ""Derivation of the Standard Uncertainty When Using the Full-Resolution ""; ""Derivation of the Standard Uncertainty When Using the Half-Resolution ""