Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology articles from November 2005

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology archives from November 2005

The measurement of little g: a fertile ground for precision measurement science.
November 1, 2005... The occasion of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "golden year" provides a wonderful opportunity to discuss some aspects of gravity--gravitation being an interest of Einstein's that occurred a few years after 1905. I'll do this by talking...

On the absorption spectrum of noble gases at the arc spectrum limit.
November 1, 2005... Rydberg spectral lines of an atom are sometimes superimposed on the continuous spectrum of a different configuration. Effects of interaction among different configurations in one of these cases are theoretically investigated, and a formula is...

Uncertainty in NIST force measurements.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
November 1, 2005... This paper focuses upon the uncertainty of force calibration measurements at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The uncertainty of the realization of force for the national deadweight force standards at NIST is...

Bayesian approach to assessing uncertainty and calculating a reference value in Key Comparison experiments.
November 1, 2005... International experiments called Key Comparisons pose an interesting statistical problem, the estimation of a quantity called a Reference Value. There are many possible forms that this estimator can take. Recently, this topic has received much...

Preparation of reference material 8504, transformer oil.
November 1, 2005... A new reference material (RM), RM 8504, has been prepared for use as a diluent oil with Aroclors in transformer oil Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) 3075 to 3080 and SRM 3090 when developing and validating methods for the determination of...