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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Regtien, P. P. L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Kogan Page Science, 2004.
Subjects:
Measurement.
Mesure.
measuring.
Messtechnik
Online Access:MyiLibrary
ScienceDirect
Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 1.1. Views on measurement science 1
  • 1.2. Trends in measurement science and technology 5
  • 1.3. General architecture of a measurement system 8
  • 2 Basics of Measurement 15
  • 2.1. System of units 15
  • 2.2. Standards 18
  • 2.3. Quantities and properties 21
  • 2.4. Transducers 36
  • 3 Measurement Errors and Uncertainty 43
  • 3.1. True values, errors and uncertainty 43
  • 3.2. Measurement error and probability theory 44
  • 3.3. Statistical inference 50
  • 3.4. Uncertainty analysis 55
  • 3.5. Characterization of errors 63
  • 3.6. Error reduction techniques 74
  • 4 Analogue Signal Conditioning 87
  • 4.1. Analogue amplifiers 87
  • 4.2. Analogue filters 97
  • 4.3. Modulation and detection 105
  • 5 Digital Signal Conditioning 117
  • 5.1. Digital (binary) signals and codes 117
  • 5.2. Sampling 119
  • 5.3. Sampling devices and multiplexers 128
  • 5.4. Digital functions 133
  • 5.5. Hardware for digital signal conditioning 135
  • 6 Analogue to Digital and Digital to Analogue Conversion 141
  • 6.1. Conversion errors 141
  • 6.2. Parallel DA-converters 145
  • 6.3. Serial DA-converters 148
  • 6.4. Parallel AD-converters 149
  • 6.5. Direct AD-converter 152
  • 6.6. Integrating AD-converters 154
  • 6.7. Sigma-delta AD-converters 157
  • 7 Measurement of Electrical, Thermal and Optical Quantities 163
  • 7.1. Measurement of electrical quantities and parameters 163
  • 7.2. Measurement of time and time-related quantities 173
  • 7.3. Measurement of magnetic quantities 174
  • 7.4. Measurement of thermal quantities 179
  • 7.5. Measurement of optical quantities 188
  • 8 Measurement of Mechanical Quantities 197
  • 8.1. Potentiometric sensors 197
  • 8.2. Strain gauges 200
  • 8.3. Capacitive displacement sensors 205
  • 8.4. Magnetic and inductive displacement sensors 210
  • 8.5. Optical displacement sensors 217
  • 8.6. Piezoelectric force sensors and accelerometers 231
  • 8.7. Acoustic distance measurement 236
  • 9 Measurement of Chemical Quantities 251
  • 9.2. Potentiometry 252
  • 9.3. Amperometry 257
  • 9.4. Electrolyte conductivity 267
  • 10 Imaging Instruments 277
  • 10.2. Optical imaging 286
  • 10.3. Advanced imaging devices 295
  • 10.4. Digital image processing and computer vision 301
  • 11 Design of Measurement Systems 309
  • 11.2. Computer based measurement systems 314
  • 11.3. Design examples 318
  • A. Scales 331
  • B. Units and quantities 334
  • C. Expectations, variances and covariance of two random variables 335.