Overview
- Provides many figures, examples, and problems with solutions that guide the student step by step
- Offers a written laboratory report of an experiment as an example
- Contains a chapter entirely dedicated to graphs: how to prepare them and how to extract information from them
- Includes an appendix on dimensional analysis
- Presents an extensive account of the statistics of radioactivity
- Uses programs in Excel®, Origin®, Python and R
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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About this book
The book is divided into three parts, of roughly equal length, addressing the theory, the analysis of data, and the presentation of results. Examples are given and problems are solved using the Excel, Origin, Python and R software packages. In addition, programs in all four languages are made available to readers, allowing them to use them in analyzing and presenting the results of their own experiments. Subjects are treated at a level appropriate for undergraduate students in the natural sciences, but this book should also appeal to anyone whose work involves dealing with experimental results.
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Keywords
- binomial distribution
- Bernoulli distribution
- Poisson distribution
- Gaussian distribution
- error propagation
- least squares fit
- central limit theorem
- dimensional analysis
- international measurement system
- standard deviation
- standard deviation of the mean
- mean value
- normal distribution
- joint probability density
- written report of an experiment
- Chauvenet's criterion
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Analysis and Presentation of Experimental Results
Book Subtitle: With Examples, Problems and Programs
Authors: Costas Christodoulides, George Christodoulides
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53345-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53344-5Published: 29 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53345-2Published: 14 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 526
Number of Illustrations: 119 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Original Greek edition published by N.T.U.A. University Press, Athens, 2009
Topics: Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Engineering, general