The need for error analysis is captured in the book's arresting cover shot - of the 1895 Paris train disaster (also available as a wall poster). The early chapters teach elementary techniques of error propagation and statistical analysis to enable students to produce successful lab reports. Later chapters treat a number of more advanced mathematical topics, with many examples from mechanics and optics. End-of-chapter problems include many that call for use of calculators or computers, and numerous figures help readers visualize uncertainties using error bars. "Score a hit! ...the book reveals the exceptional skill of the author as lecturer and teacher...a valuable reference work for any student (or instructor) in the sciences and engineering." The Physics Teacher "This is a well written book with good illustrations, index and general bibliography...The book is well suited for engineering and science courses at universities and as a basic reference text for those engineers and scientists in practice." Strain, Journal of the British Society for Strain Measurement
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John Taylor is Professor of Physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He has won numerous teaching awards, served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physics, and received an Emmy Award for his television series called "Physics 4 Fun." Taylor is the author of three best-selling textbooks.
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Many undergraduate students in sciences and engineering must have encountered this experience: You conduct an experiment and collect the relevant data. You are asked to fit your data into a straight line by performing one or multiple linear regression. You are also to present any uncertainty and error in your data as well as calculation. You panic and scratch your head and don't know what's the appropriate procedure to carry out these analysis.Here comes John Taylor's "An Introduction to Error Analysis", which introduces the study of uncertainties to students. The book assumes no prior knowledge and uses a plethora of pertinent examples (drawn from chemistry, physics, and engineering) to illustrate topics like propagation of uncertainties, random uncertainties, rejection of data, least-squares fitting, and distribution. This book will save hours of studying and researching on error analysis method. It is very well-written and reader-friendly that lower division students will find it useful.
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I bought the first edition of this book as an engineering graduate student in the early '80s, and it sparked my enduring fascination with statistical methods. I'm a software engineer with a major statistical software firm now, and I still refer to my copy regularly.When I purchased the second edition this year for my son, who is a junior in college, I doubted that it could improve on the original. I was wrong. John Taylor has outdone himself. The new examples are superb enhancements of an already outstanding text.
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Even if you have achieved a high level of mathematical sophistication, this book is a great read. I find myself gaining great new insights to basic principles due to Taylor's logical developments. This is simply the best available introductory text on error analysis.
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Part I introduces the basic ideas of error analysis as they are needed in a typical first-year, college physics laboratory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
definite average rate, normal error integral, highest probable value, treated skis, best estimates for the constants, fractional uncertainty, infinitely many measurements, introductory physics laboratory, reduced chi squared, fractional uncertainties, true average number, negligible uncertainty, original uncertainties, quadratic sum, final uncertainty, stepwise calculation, percent uncertainty, counting experiment, provisional rule, expected average number, random uncertainties, percentage uncertainties, percent uncertainties, uncorrelated variables, four bins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Independent Uncertainties, Preliminary Description of Error Analysis, Least-Squares Fits, Measured Answer, Other Curves, Checking Relationships, Comparison of Two Measured Numbers, General Definition of Chi Squared, Properties of the Binomial Distribution, Testing of Hypotheses, John Wiley, Propagation Step New!
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Independent Uncertainties, Preliminary Description of Error Analysis, Least-Squares Fits, Measured Answer, Other Curves, Checking Relationships, Comparison of Two Measured Numbers, General Definition of Chi Squared, Properties of the Binomial Distribution, Testing of Hypotheses, John Wiley, Propagation Step New!
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