Truth and Traceability in Physics and Metrology
Truth and Traceability in Physics and Metrology by Michael Grabe, published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers on October 5, 2018, is an insightful exploration into the complexities of metrological data and measurement errors. This edition spans 81 pages and is presented in English. The book addresses the historical oversight of systematic errors in experimental activities, focusing on the need to reevaluate how these errors are perceived and managed in the field of physics and metrology.
Readers will find a thorough discussion on a new error concept that challenges the conventional practice of treating unknown systematic errors as random. Grabe emphasizes the importance of recognizing these errors as constants that remain unknown in terms of magnitude and sign. By doing so, the book aims to enhance the understanding of traceability in measurements, providing a framework for localizing true values of measurands. This work is relevant for those interested in applied sciences, technology, and engineering, particularly in the context of measurement and weights and measures.
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Metrological data is known to be blurred by the imperfections of the measuring process. In retrospect, for about two centuries regular or constant errors were no focal point of experimental activities, only irregular or random error were. Today’s notation of unknown systematic errors is in line with this. Confusingly enough, the worldwide practiced approach to belatedly admit those unknown systematic errors amounts to consider them as being random, too. This book discusses a new error concept dispensing with the common practice to randomize unknown systematic errors. Instead, unknown systematic errors will be treated as what they physically are- namely as constants being unknown with respect to magnitude and sign. The ideas considered in this book issue a proceeding steadily localizing the true values of the measurands and consequently traceability.
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