Overview
This course covers the uncertainty of measurement, primarily as it relates to systems and instrumentation. The student will learn how to evaluate and combine uncertainty components to arrive at a value of total uncertainty and how to derive the expanded uncertainty for a system or instrument.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of ten (10) questions at the end of this course to earn PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- The definition of uncertainty
- Classification and evaluation of uncertainty components
- Type A and Type B evaluations
- Combined standard uncertainty
- Instrument calibration traceability
- Concept of 4 to 1 uncertainty ratios
Course
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