Synopsis
This text for an undergraduate junior or senior course covers the most common elements necessary to design, execute, analyze, and document an engineering experiment or measurement system and to specify instrumentation for a production process. In addition to descriptions of common measurement systems, the text covers computerized data acquisition systems, common statistical techniques, experimental uncertainty analysis, and guidelines for planning and documenting experiments. The authors are affiliated with the school of engineering at San Francisco State University. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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An introduction to experiment design and measurement systems, describing common measurement systems for factors such as humidity and flow rate; computerized data acquisition systems; statistical techniques; experimental uncertainty analysis; and guidelines for planning and documenting experiments. Includes problems and answers, chapter summaries, a glossary, and appendices of computational methods and properties of substances. For engineering students in a semester course of up to three lectures with one lab per week, assuming a prior course in statistics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)