Doubt-Free Uncertainty in Measurement
Ratcliffe, Colin; Ratcliffe, Bridget
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. Emphasis is placed on explaining the background and meaning of the topics, while keeping the level of mathematics at the minimum level necessary. Dr. Colin Ratcliffe, USNA, and Bridget Ratcliffe, Johns Hopkins, develop uncertainty budgets and explain their use. In some examples, the budget may show a process is already adequate and where costs ... Read more
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Facilitates practicing engineers’ understanding of uncertainty budgets, essential to calculating cost-effective savings to a wide variety of processes contingent on measurement
Presents uncertainty budgets in an accessible style suitable for all undergraduate STEM courses that include a laboratory component
Provides a highly adaptable supplement to graduate textbooks for courses where students’ work includes reporting on experimental results
Includes an expanded case study developing uncertainty from transducers though measurands and propagated to the final measurement that can be used as a template for the analysis of many processes
Stands as a useful pocket reference for all engineers and experimental scientists
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