Newnes Instrumentation and Measurement Pocket Book (Newnes)
Edition: 3rd edition
Publisher: Newnes
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780750652278
Subjects: Engineering measurement & calibration; Engineering Instruments; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Automation; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Reference; Engineering - General; Mensuration
First sentence: In general, measurement systems can be considered to have three basic constituent elements 1 The sensing element or, as it is frequently called, the transducer is the element that produces a signal which is related to the quantity being measured Such elements take information about the thing being measured and change it into some form which enables the rest of the measurement system to give a value to it