Table of Contents

• Preface to the fourth edition
• Acknowledgements
• Part A: General Principles 
• 1. The general measurement system
• 2. Static characteristics of measurement system elements
• 3. The accuracy of measurement systems in the steady state
• 4. Dynamic characteristics of measurement systems 
• 5. Loading effects and two-port networks
• 6. Signals and noise in measurement systems
• 7. Reliability, choice and economics of measurement systems
• Part B: Typical measurement system elements
• 8. Sensing elements
• 9. Signal conditioning elements
• 10. Signal processing elements and software
• 11. Data presentation elements.
• Part C: Speciaised measurement Systems
• 12. Flow measurement systems.
• 13. Intrinsically safe measurement systems.
• 14. Heat transfer effects in measurement systems.
• 15. Optical measurement systems.
• 16. Ultrasonic measurement systems.
• 17. Gas chromatography.
• 18. Data acquisition and communications systems
• 19. The intelligent multivariable measurement system
• Answers to numerical problems.
• Index. 

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