Personal Equation Definition

Personal Equation Sentence Examples

• In each case the results of the observations may be systematically in error, not only from the uncertain diameter of the moon, but in a still greater degree from the varying effect of irradiation and the personal equation of the observers.

• This personal equation is different for different observers.

• In some experiments in which contact was made instead of broken, Regnault determined the personal equation of the apparatus.

• It is in this department of criticism that the personal equation has the freest play, and hence the natural adherents of either school of critics should be specially on their guard against their school's peculiar bias.

• Apart from the large scope of his activity, he introduced such important novelties as the effective use of the heliometer, the correction for personal equation (in 1823), and the systematic investigation of instrumental errors.