Module EC-8

Measurements, Instrumentation and Experimental Method

The instruments on a bench and the method around them. What a multimeter and an oscilloscope are actually doing, why a probe changes the circuit it touches, what calibration promises and what it does not, how a bridge beats a direct reading, where noise enters a measurement and how to keep it out, what happens between a sensor and a stored number, and how to design an experiment whose result someone else could reproduce.