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10481 Fundamental and Applied Metrology
In collaboration with Technological Service Institutes Danish title: Fundamental og anvendt metrologi
Language: Danish Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: C1716
No credit points with: C1716
Prerequisite: 10201 eller10243
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Scope and form: Lectures, project work, and problem solving
Examination: Evaluation of compulsory reports. (13-scale)
Participant limitation: max. 10

Department: Department of Physics
Aim: To provide the students with an overview over the structure of the SI unit system, to give them an understanding of the utilisation of the system to make measurements of physical and chemical quantities internationally comparable, and to enable them to analyse the relevant measurement technique for a given problem.
Contents: SI system: Fundamental and derived units; history of the SI system; coherence of the system, nomenclature. Measurements: Traceability; primary and reference standards; statistical and systematic uncertainty; the BIPM method. Definition, implementation, and maintenance of selected units: Second - Cesium clock; meter - Iodine-stabilized HeNe-laser; kilogram/mol; volt - Josephson effect; ohm - quantized Hall effect; kelvin - ITS-90 scale. Practical modules: An actual measurement with subsequent setting up of an uncertainty budget. Industrial relevance of measorements