THE HANDLING OF CHEMICAL DATA. VON PROSPER DAVID LARK, B. R. CRAVEN UND RICHARD CHARLES LESLIE BOSWORTH. REPR. BRAUNSCHWEIG: PERGAMON PR. 1969. XI,379 S.M.ABB.U.TAB

Content: Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv PREFACE , Pages ix-x NOTATION , Page xi CHAPTER I - THE ORIGIN AND PRESENTATION OF CHEMICAL DATA , Pages 1-26 CHAPTER II - MEASUREMENTS OF A SINGLE VARIABLE , Pages 27-71 CHAPTER III - ERRORS, PROBABILITY AND TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE , Pages 72-135 CHAPTER IV - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO VARIABLES–SIMPLE LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS , Pages 136-206 CHAPTER V - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO OR MORE VARIABLES–MULTIPLE, NON-LINEAR AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS , Pages 207-267 CHAPTER VI - SMOOTHING, INTERPOLATION, DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION , Pages 268-298 CHAPTER VII - DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS IN PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROBLEMS , Pages 299-332 APPENDIX - TABLES OF STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS , Pages 333-355 EXERCISES , Pages 357-365 REFERENCES , Pages 367-370 GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY , Pages 371-372 INDEX , Pages 373-379 The Handling of Chemical Data deals with how measurements, such as those arrived at from chemical experimentation, are handled. The book discusses the different kinds of measurements and their specific dimensional characteristics by starting with the origin and presentation of chemical data. The text explains the units, fixed points, and relationships found between scales, the concept of dimensions, the presentation of quantitative data (whether in a tabular or graphical form), and some uses of empirical equations. The book also explains the relationship between two variables, and how equatio ..