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- Knowing: uncertainty, complete measurement, errors, steps in handling calipers
- Abilities: calculate uncertainties and absolute/relative errors, handling calipers, choosing the correct measurement instrument
- Understand: measurement accuracy and being able to assess it, review of measurement method
3. Literature
Necessary further reading: how to use a caliper!, error propagation, rounding to significant figures!:
[1] DIN 1319-4. Grundlagen der Meßtechnik. Teil 3: Auswertung von Messungen - Meßunsicherheit (9.2). Ausgabe 2, Februar 1999.
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[5] Lectures: MT-Motivation, Measurement TheoryNecessary further reading: how to use a caliper!, error propagation, rounding to significant figures!
4. Basics/Fundamentals
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