TY - BOOK AU - Webster, John G. TI - Measurement, instrumentation, and sensors handbook: Electromagnetic, Optical, Radiation, Chemical, and Biomedical Measurement SN - 9781138072183 U1 - 530.8 PY - 2014/// CY - Boca Raton: PB - CRC Press, KW - Physical measurements KW - Measurement KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments N1 - Part I Sensors and Sensor Technology; Part II Electrical Variables; Part III Electromagnetic Variables; Part IV Time and Frequency; Part V Optical; Part VI Chemical Variables; Part VII Medical, Biomedical, and Health N2 - The Second Edition of the bestselling Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook brings together all aspects of the design and implementation of measurement, instrumentation, and sensors. Reflecting the current state of the art, it describes the use of instruments and techniques for performing practical measurements in engineering, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences and discusses processing systems, automatic data acquisition, reduction and analysis, operation characteristics, accuracy, errors, calibrations, and the incorporation of standards for control purposes ER -