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Instrumentation is a subject which is of fundamental importance to engineering, and to almost all of the practically-based sciences. From the student undertaking a laboratory investigation to the operators of a nuclear power plant, accurate measurements are an essential prerequisite to the understanding and control of all physical processes.
Only a simpleton believes what he is told.
A prudent man checks to see where he is going.
(Proverbs 14:15)
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J. Topping, Errors of Observation and their Treatment, 4th edn, Chapman and Hall, 1972.
R. K. Penny, The Experimental Method, Longman, 1974.
P. R. Bevington, Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, McGraw-Hill, 1969.
Open University Science Foundation Course Team, The Handling of Experimental Data, Open University Press, 1970.
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Turner, J.D. (1988). The Performance of Instrumentation Systems. In: Instrumentation for Engineers. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19508-4_1
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