We have always felt the need for a suitable textbook on instrumentation encompassing the three main features, viz., instrumentation principles, measurement techniques and data analysis, presented in a form that is lucid and easily comprehensible to students. Currently, both students and teachers have been experiencing difficulty in finding these three aspects highlighted in a single textbook. In fact, the syllabi of most courses on instrumentation/experimental methods for various undergraduate and postgraduate disciplines comprise all the three aspects. Keeping in view the above-mentioned requirements, we have endeavoured to bring out the present textbook based on our wide and long-standing experience of teaching and research in this interdisciplinary field of instrumentation.

The first edition of Instrumentation, Measurement and Analysis was published in 1985 and the second edition was published in 2004. There have been several reprints subsequently every year. In view of the area being truly interdisciplinary and several developments in the area taking place, a need for revision was felt by a number of institutes of Science, Engineering and Technology. Comments were invited and received by the publisher from several reputed teachers in the area. These were carefully looked into by the authors and the third edition is based on the above suggestions from various reviewers.

Student’s Center contains two sample chapters - Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), Applications of Digital Computers in Experimental Data Analysis, Interactive Objective Questions - True/False, Multiple-Choice Quiz and Bibliography. A glance through the these resources will give an indication of the book.

Instructor’s Center will provide the faculty with the Solution Manual for the problems given at the end of the chapters in the book.

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