Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the first edition
- 1 The object of practical physics
- PART 1 STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF DATA
- 2 Introduction to errors
- 3 Treatment of a single variable
- 4 Further topics in statistical theory
- 5 Common sense in errors
- PART 2 EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
- PART 3 RECORD AND CALCULATIONS
- APPENDICES
- Solutions to exercises
- Some useful books
- References
- Index
2 - Introduction to errors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the first edition
- 1 The object of practical physics
- PART 1 STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF DATA
- 2 Introduction to errors
- 3 Treatment of a single variable
- 4 Further topics in statistical theory
- 5 Common sense in errors
- PART 2 EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
- PART 3 RECORD AND CALCULATIONS
- APPENDICES
- Solutions to exercises
- Some useful books
- References
- Index
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- Practical Physics , pp. 5 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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