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| Preface | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Views on measurement science | |
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| Trends in measurement science and technology | |
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| General architecture of a measurement system | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Basics of Measurement | |
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| System of units | |
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| Standards | |
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| Quantities and properties | |
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| Transducers | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Measurement Errors and Uncertainty | |
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| True values, errors and uncertainty | |
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| Measurement error and probability theory | |
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| Statistical inference | |
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| Uncertainty analysis | |
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| Characterization of errors | |
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| Error reduction techniques | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Analogue Signal Conditioning | |
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| Analogue amplifiers | |
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| Analogue filters | |
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| Modulation and detection | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Digital Signal Conditioning | |
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| Digital (binary) signals and codes | |
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| Sampling | |
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| Sampling devices and multiplexers | |
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| Digital functions | |
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| Hardware for digital signal conditioning | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Analogue to Digital and Digital to Analogue Conversion | |
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| Conversion errors | |
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| Parallel DA-converters | |
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| Serial DA-converters | |
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| Parallel AD-converters | |
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| Direct AD-converter | |
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| Integrating AD-converters | |
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| Sigma-delta AD-converters | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Measurement of Electrical, Thermal and Optical Quantities | |
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| Measurement of electrical quantities and parameters | |
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| Measurement of time and time-related quantities | |
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| Measurement of magnetic quantities | |
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| Measurement of thermal quantities | |
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| Measurement of optical quantities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Measurement of Mechanical Quantities | |
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| Potentiometric sensors | |
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| Strain gauges | |
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| Capacitive displacement sensors | |
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| Magnetic and inductive displacement sensors | |
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| Optical displacement sensors | |
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| Piezoelectric force sensors and accelerometers | |
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| Acoustic distance measurement | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Measurement of Chemical Quantities | |
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| Some fundamentals and definitions | |
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| Potentiometry | |
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| Amperometry | |
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| Electrolyte conductivity | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Imaging Instruments | |
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| Imaging principles | |
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| Optical imaging | |
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| Advanced imaging devices | |
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| Digital image processing and computer vision | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Design of Measurement Systems | |
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| General aspects of system design | |
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| Computer based measurement systems | |
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| Design examples | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Scales | |
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| Units and quantities | |
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| Expectations, variances and covariance of two random variables | |
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| References | |
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| Solutions to Exercices | |
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| Index | |