Article ID: CBB000073598

Calibration (1997)

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Description “Calibration, the use of a surrogate signal to standardize an instrument, is an important strategy for the establishment of the validity of an experimental result. In this paper, I present several examples, typical of physics experiments, that illustrate the adequacy of the surrogate.”


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Authors & Contributors
Mestitz, Anna
Vittori, Ottavio
Drake, Stillman
Clercq, Peter de
Lemmerich, Jost
Heilbron, John L.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza di Firenze
Science and Education
Platinum Metals Review
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
Museum Boerhaave
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Comune di Reggio Emilia
Folio Publishers
Harvard University Press
Wiley-VCH
Concepts
Measuring instruments
Astronomy
Physics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Relativity
Theoretical physics
People
Galilei, Galileo
Traube, Moritz
Voigt, Woldemar
Picardet, Claudine
Nobili, Leopoldo
Einstein, Albert
Time Periods
17th century
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
10th century
Places
China; Japan
Hanover (Germany)
France
Institutions
Universiteit Leiden
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Germany)
Göttingen. Universität. I. Physikalische Institut
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