Re: [Phys-l] Some recommendations please

[Donald Smith <dsmith4@guilford.edu>]

Greetings,

I love Bevington as a resource (his brother was also my Shakespeare
professor in college,
so I may be biased ;-)), but I don't think I would teach out of it.  It's
very much the bare
minimum you need to know without a lot of hand-holding or examples.  Which
makes it
a great reference for me to find stuff, but I think students would have a
hard time using it
as a primary, beginning textbook.  At least, I did when I first encountered
the book.  Once
I understood the stuff it was a great place to go back to for a refresher.

Hope that helps,

Don Smith

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:57 AM, alex brown <aesbrown77@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Thank you Richard, John and Bernard
>
> I have gone ahead and bought the Louis Lyon book that BC recommended.
>  Since it's short and I have read his "all you want to know about maths..."
> books and enjoyed his style.  As a more indepth book(should I need it) its a
> toss up between the famous Taylor book (simply because it's well known) and
> this one I have been recommended below:
> Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences
> by Philip Bevington
> I like the sound of this as it has access to C++ programs and it makes
> reference to monte carlo method, which John Denker mentioned. Has anyone
> read this book?
>
> I am going back to uni to do an MSc after 10 yrs and thought I had better
> do it properly this time.. Not just fudge my error calcs :)
>
> Thanks again
> Thanks for the advice
>
> --- On Tue, 2/6/09, Richard L. Bowman <rbowman@bridgewater.edu> wrote:
>
>
> From: Richard L. Bowman <rbowman@bridgewater.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Some recommendations please
> To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, 2 June, 2009, 12:39 PM
>
>
> Alex, I have found the book by D. C. Baird, "Experimentation: An
> Introduction to Measurement Theory and Experiment Design," 3rd ed.
> (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995) to be a useful book at the
> undergraduate level.
>
> Richard Bowman
> Bridgewater College, VA
> _______________________________________________
> Forum for Physics Educators
> Phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
> https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/mailman/listinfo/phys-l
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Forum for Physics Educators
> Phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
> https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/mailman/listinfo/phys-l



-- 
Donald Smith
Guilford College Physics Department
http://www.guilford.edu/physics/dasmith