CHAPTER SIX. Error Analysis and Measurement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Contents ix
4. Figures and Tables xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Note on Citations xvi
7. Abbreviations xvii
8. Introduction 1
9. PART I. DISCIPLINE
10. CHAPTER ONE. Educational Reform and the Natural Sciences 21
11. CHAPTER TWO. Quantification in Physics Teaching and Research 61
12. CHAPTER THREE. Shaping a Pedagogical Physics 99
13. CHAPTER FOUR. Mechanics and the Besselian Experiment 128
14. CHAPTER FIVE. Successes and Realizations 172
15. CHAPTER SIX. Error Analysis and Measurement 205
16. CHAPTER SEVEN. Interpolation and Certainty 235
17. CHAPTER EIGHT. Error over Truth 266
18. PART II. PRACTICE
19. CHAPTER NINE. The Workaday World of Physiklehrer 317
20. CHAPTER TEN. The Ethos of Exactitude 366
21. Epilogue 451
22. APPENDIX ONE. Provisional Statutes of the Seminar for Mathematics and Physics at the University of Konigsberg 461
23. APPENDIX TWO. Neumann’s Cycle of Lecture Courses 464
24. APPENDIX THREE. Directory of Identified Seminar Students 469
25. Glossary of German Terms 473
26. Index 477