Test instruments such as oscilloscopes and DMMs (digital multimeters) often let you get the measurement results you need with just the press of a button. But the number on a meter's display or the ...

In order to measure the mechanical properties of materials in compression, tension, bending or torsion, a universal testing machine is utilized. This article outlines the two different types ...

Figure 1 shows that individual measurement values hover around a mean value and the difference between the mean value and true value is the systematic error of ...

All analog measurements — voltage, current, temperature, humidity, etc. — include some amount of error. Your job is to minimize those errors enough to give your ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Monitoring the current consumed in electronic systems has become critical as more functionality packs into tighter ...

Accurate measurements are central to virtually every scientific and engineering discipline. The process of designing any test setup and characterizing its performance can be broken down into a number ...

Gas-fired power plants consume large volumes of gas. Accurate measurement of natural gas consumption in gas-fired power plants is a necessary element in commodity pricing of electricity. An accurate ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...