Principles of measurement and instrumentation
This text presents the subject of instrumentation and its use within measurement systems as an integrated and coherent subject. This edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with new material and five new chapters. Features of this edition are: an integrated treatment of systematic and rando...
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New York
Prentice Hall
1993
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to measurement
- Instrument classification and characteristics
- Measurement system errors
- Instrument calibration
- Signal processing, manipulation and transmission
- Bridge circuits
- Measurement of electrical signals
- Data recording and presentation
- Fiber optic sensors and transmission systems
- Intelligent instruments
- Instrumentation/computer networks
- Temperature measurement
- Pressure measurement
- Flow measurement
- Level measurement
- Dimension measurement
- Translational displacement transducers
- Measurement of translational velocity, acceleration, vibration and shock
- Rotational displacement transducers
- Rotational velocity transducers
- Mass, force and torque measurement
- Measurement of miscellaneous quantities
- Appendix 1: Imperial - metric - SI conversion tables
- Appendix 2: Colour codes for resistors and capacitors
- Appendix 3: Thevenin's theorem
- Appendix 4: Thermocouple tables
- Appendix 5: Error function tables
- Appendix 6: Solutions to exercises