4EC3A ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT & INSTRUMENTATION

  Units    Contents of the subjects
I
THEORY OF ERRORS - Accuracy & precision, Repeatability, Limits of errors, Systematic & random errors, Modeling of errors, Probable error & standard deviation, Gaussian error analysis, Combination of errors.
II
ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS -Electronic Voltmeter, Electronic Multimeters, Digital Voltmeter, Component Measuring Instruments: Q meter, Vector Impedance meter, RF Power & Voltage Measurements, Introduction to shielding & grounding.
III
OSCILLOSCOPES - CRT Construction, Basic CRO circuits, CRO Probes, Techniques of Measurement of frequency, Phase Angle and Time Delay, Multibeam, multi trace, storage & sampling Oscilloscopes.
IV
SIGNAL GENERATION AND SIGNAL ANALYSIS - Sine wave generators, Frequency synthesized signal generators, Sweep frequency generators. Signal Analysis - Measurement Technique, Wave Analyzers, Frequency - selective wave analyser, Heterodyne wave analyser, Harmonic distortion analyser, and Spectrum analyser.
V
TRANSDUCERS - Classification, Selection Criteria, Characteristics, Construction, Working Principles and Application of following Transducers:- RTD, Thermocouples, Thermistors, LVDT, Strain Gauges, Bourdon Tubes, Seismic Accelerometers, Tachogenerators, Load Cell, Piezoelectric Transducers, Ultrasonic Flow Meters.
Text/References:
1. Electronic Instrumentation, H S Kalsi, TMH
2. Electronic Measurements & Instrumentation, Bernard Oliver, TMH
3. Instrumentation Measurement & Analysis, B.C.Nakra,K.K. Chaudhry, TMH
4. Electronic Measurements and Instrumentation, Gupta & Soni, Genius pub.
5. Electronic Measurements & Instrumentation, Bernard Oliver, John Cage, TMH
6. Electronic Measurements and Instrumentation, Lal Kishore, Pearson
7. Elements of Electronic Instrumentation And Measurement, Carr, Pearson
8. Electronic Instrument and Measurment, Bell, Oxford
9. Instrumentation for Engineering Measurements, 2ed, Dally, Wiley
10. Introduction To Measurements and Instrumetation, Arun K. Ghosh, PHI