This course offers the student a comprehensive introduction to error analysis also identify the types and pattern of error moreover to establish error taxonomies. The course has main objectives for the student to: collection of sample for learner language, identification of error, description of error, evaluation of error, and also how utilize the distributions.

Recommended Books

1. An introduction to Error Analysis by John R.Taylor, University Science Books, California, 1982

2. Measurements and their Uncertainties A practical guide to modern error analysis by I FAN G. HUGHES and THOMAS P. A. HASE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Suggested Books

1. Errors of Observations by J.B.Toping, IOP, 1962.

2. Data Reduction and Error Analysis for Physical Science by P. Bevington, McGraw Hill 3rd Edition 2003

3. Bevington, Phillip and Robinson, D. Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, 2nd. ed. McGraw-Hill: New York, 1991.

Assessment Criteria:

Sessional:                    20 marks (Assignment, quiz, etc)

Mid Term exam:           30 marks

Final exam:                  50 marks

Time of class:

BS 4th(Reg)       =>       Monday (11:00 - 12:00), Tuesday (12:00 - 1:00), Wednesday (12:00 - 1:00)