At the end of this course, the student will learn:
- basics about experimental apparatus
- uncertainty in experimental analysis
- methods to identify and eliminate "bad" experimental data points
- statistical tools to analyze experimental uncertainty
- presentation skills about technical reporting and writing
- how a measurement electrically occurs
- techniques for length, area, pressure, temperature and stress measurement
- sample and population mean and standard deviation
- probability, normal distribution, chi-quare, student's t-test
- least square methods and curve fitting
- group work