Polak P. Systematic errors in engineering experiments

Palgrave, 2014. — 129 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-04218-0.This book is intended for students of mechanical, chemical and other branches of engineering at universities or technical colleges. It should help them to benefit from laboratory work by encouraging a thoughtful, critical attitude and by indicating the wider context of basic experiments. This type of material is difficult to present and even more di ffi cult to absorb when given in lecture form; it is hoped that lecturers as well as students will welcome this selection. It is complementary to the well-established books on instrumentation, with a minimum of overlap.The sequence has been arranged to suit students throughout their tertiary education, starting with material which can be followed on the basis of school-work, following on to those topics met early on in an engineering course. The later parts include material appropriate to project and research work. Detailed descriptions have been avoided, except in the case of gas analysis, in view of the limi tat ions of space and the great variety of apparatus available for most of the other operations.