Scales, Dimensions, Measures

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  • Geoff Cottrell - Matter. A Very Short Introduction (OUP VSI)

  • Gerard t’Hooft, Stefan Vandoren - Time in Powers of Ten. Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales (2014)

  • Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison,Charles and Ray Eames - Powers of Ten: a Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero (1984)

  • Cumrun Vafa - Puzzles to Decipher the World. Physics and Mathematics from Newton to Strings (2022)

  • Lawrence Weinstein, John A. Adam - Guesstimation. Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin (2008) trad.it. more or less how much? The art of making estimates about the world

  • Lawrence Weinstein, Patricia Edwards - Guesstimation 2.0. Solving Today’s Problems on the Back of a Napkin Press (2012)

  • Rob Eastaway - Maths on the Back of an Envelope. Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything (2019)

  • Piero Martin - The 7 Measures of the World (2021)

  • Andrew C. A. Elliott - Is this number big? To understand when a number should scare or excite us - 2021

  • Vaclav Smil - Numbers Don’t Lie. Short Stories for Understanding the World - 2023

Insights into estimation and dimensional analysis

  • Anthony Zee - Fly by Night Physics: How Physicists Use the Backs of Envelopes
  • Sanjoy Mahajan - The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering. Mastering Complexity (2014)
  • Sanjoy Mahajan - Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010)
  • Don S. Lemons - A Student s Guide to Dimensional Analysis
  • John N. Shive, Robert L. Weber - Similarities in Physics (1982)
  • L.I. Sedov - Similarity and Dimensional Methods in Mechanics
  • Eleftherios N. Economou - From Quarks to the Universe. a short physics course. 2nd ed. (2019)

Resources Online

Analysis of experimental errors

  • Lino Miramonti, Laura Perini, Ivan Veronese - Analysis of experimental laboratory errors - 2009
  • John R. Taylor - Introduction To Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements transl.it. Introduction to error analysis
  • Philip Bevington, D. Keith Robinson - Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences

Analysis of calculation errors and rounding

  • Rubin H. Landau, Manuel J. Paez, Cristian C. Bordeianu - Computational Physics
  • Forman S. Acton - Real Computing Made Real
  • Nicholas J. Higham - Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, 2nd ed (2002)