A multidisciplinary reference of engineering measurement tools, techniques, and applications
"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science." — Lord Kelvin
Measurement is at the heart of any engineering and scientific discipline and job function. Whether engineers and scientists are attempting to state requirements quantitatively and demonstrate compliance; to track progress and predict results; or to analyze costs and benefits, they must use the right tools and techniques to produce meaningful data.
The Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering is the most comprehensive, up-to-date reference set on engineering and scientific measurements—beyond anything on the market today. Encyclopedic in scope, Volume 3 covers measurements in physics, electrical engineering and chemistry:
- Laser Measurement Techniques
- Magnetic Force Images using Capacitive Coupling Effect
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
- Measurement of Light and Color
- The Detection and Measurement of Ionizing Radiation
- Measuring Time and Comparing Clocks
- Laboratory-Based Gravity Measurement
- Cryogenic Measurements
- Temperature-Dependent Fluorescence Measurements
- Voltage and Current Transducers for Power Systems
- Electric Power and Energy Measurement
- Chemometrics for the Engineering and Measurement Sciences
- Liquid Chromatography
- Mass Spectroscopy Measurements of Nitrotyrosine-Containing Proteins
- Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
- Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy
- Nanomaterials Properties
- Chemical Sensing