MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS (2nd Edition) By S.P. Venkateshan

MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS (2nd Edition) By S.P. Venkateshan

Contents:

1 Measurements and Errors in measurement

2 Regression analysis

3 Design of experiments

4 Measurements of Temperature

5 Systematic errors in temperature measurement

6 Heat flux and Heat Transfer Coefficient

7 Measurement of Pressure

8 Measurement of Fluid Velocity

9 Volume flow rate

10 Stagnation and Bulk mean temperature

11 Measurement of thermo-physical properties

12 Radiation properties of surfaces

13 Gas concentration

14 Force/Acceleration, torque and power

15 Data Manipulation

16 Examples from laboratory practice

Preface:

The second edition of the book has been thoroughly revised and all errors that have come to my notice have been corrected. Additions have been made at various places in the book. Notable additions are in the statistical analysis of measured data in Module I. Important questions regarding normality of deviations and identification of outliers have been discussed in great detail. These should interest the advanced reader who is looking for an understanding of these issues. Thermistors have been described in greater detail in Chpater 4. Also, the line reversal technique of measuring gas temperature has been described in greater detail. Theory of the integrating sphere has been discussed in detail in Chapter 12. Module V has been augmented with more examples from laboratory practice. Exercises are now positioned at the end of each module. Many new exercise problems have been added in this edition.