Equation 3 · Part 6 · How Scientific Instruments and Metrology Actually Work
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
The GUM’s central move is to treat every measured or estimated quantity a result depends on as a random variable with its own estimated standard uncertainty, and then to propagate those uncertainties through the mathematical relationship that produces the final result. If a measurement result y is a function of N input quantities, y = f(, , , ) , the combined standard uncertainty is obtained from a first-order Taylor expansion of that function:
Learn the underlying idea
An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [2] Evaluation of measurement data — Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM), JCGM 100:2008 ↗
- [3] Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results ↗
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