San José State University · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

ME 120 Experimental Methods

Prof. BJ Furman

Measurement Resources

Acoustical Measurement

·        Sound (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html)

·        Measuring Sound (from Bruel & Kjaer) (pdf)

·        Noise Pollution Clearinghouse (http://www.nonoise.org/)

·        Sound Intensity (from Bruel & Kjaer) (pdf)

·        Sound and Vibration links (http://www.bksv.com/bksv/2534.htm)

·        Standard Musical Note Frequencies (http://www.daqarta.com/0mfffilt.htm)

·        What is a Decibel? (http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/dB.html)

·        Everything You Wanted to Know about Decibels But Were Afraid to Ask (http://www.techonline.com/article/pdf/showPDF.jhtml?id=2028024801)

Displacement Measurement

·        LVDT principles (http://www.rdpelectrosense.com/displacement/lvdt/lvdt-principles.htm)

·        Using quadrature encoders with E-series data acquisition boards (http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/6F25CBA2CD73417786256869005E5FC3?opendocument)

Data Acquisition

·        Data Acquisition Basics (pdf)

·        National Instruments 6024E DAQ board (pdf)

·        National Instruments USB-6009 DAQ User Guide (from NI.com) (pdf)

·        National Instruments DAQ Signal Accessory (pdf)

·        LabView Measurements Manual (pdf)

·        Field Wiring and Noise Considerations for Analog Signals (pdf)

FFT Signal Analysis

·        Fundamentals of FFT-based Signal Analysis (pdf)

Statistics

·        Hyperstat Online (http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html)

·        NIST/Sematech Engineering Statistics Handbook (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm)

·        Statistical Thinking for Decision Making (http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/Business-stat/opre504.htm)

·        The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/LHSP.HTM)

(See also the ME 120 Statistical Resources web page)

Temperature Measurement

·        Introduction to Thermocouples (from dataforth.com) (http://www.dataforth.com/catalog/pdf/an106.pdf)

·        Thermometry (http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/physics/j7.htm)

·        Temperature measurement (www.ni.com) (http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/webcategories/99324992D30933D38625684A004F0ACF?opendocument&node=DZ52547_US)

·        Practical Temperature Measurements (from Agilent, www.agilent.com) (pdf)
(http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5965-7822E.pdf)

·        Practical Thermocouple Temperature Measurements (from dataforth.com) (pdf)
(http://www.dataforth.com/catalog/pdf/an107.pdf)

Viscosity Measurment

·        Viscosity (from Brookfield Engineering) (http://www.brookfieldengineering.com/support/viscosity/index.cfm)

·        More Solutions to Sticky Problems (from Brookfield Engineering, www.brookfieldengineering.com) (pdf)

·        Z-80 Controlled Viscometer (http://www.hanssummers.com/electronics/viscometer/visc.htm)

Other

·        A Dictionary of Measures, Units, and Conversions (http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm)

·        ABC’s of Probes (http://www.tek.com/Measurement/App_Notes/ABCsProbes/60W_6053_9.pdf)

·        EEVL: the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing (http://www.eevl.ac.uk/index.htm)

·        eFunda: The Ultimate Online Reference for Engineers (http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm)

·        How to Write a Report (http://www.grantadesign.com/download/pdf/writingapaper.pdf)

·        Measurement Encyclopedia (from National Instruments) (http://zone.ni.com/devzone/nidzgloss.nsf/glossary/)

·        NIST Guide to SI Units (http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB.html#B.7)

·        NIST Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results (http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/guidelines/contents.html)

·        NIST Online Databases (http://srdata.nist.gov/gateway/gateway?dblist=0)

·        Omega Engineering Technical Reference (http://www.omega.com/techref/)

·        Powers of Ten Interactive Java Tutorial (http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/)

·        Review of Scientific Instruments (http://ojps.aip.org/rsio/)

·        Scientific Instrument Museum (http://www.humboldt.edu/~scimus/index.shtml)

·        San Jose Library (http://www.sjlibrary.org/gateways/academic/)

·        Significant Figures and Rounding Rules (http://www.angelfire.com/oh/cmulliss/index.html)

·        XYZ's of Oscilloscopes (http://www.tek.com/Measurement/cgi-bin/framed.pl?Document=/Measurement/App_Notes/XYZs/&FrameSet=oscilloscopes)

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Last updated 04DEC2008 by BJ Furman