5 15/16 X 9 1/4 in 1.Introduction; measurement science; trends; general architecture of a m easurement system. 2. Basics of measurement; units; standards; quantitie s and properties- geometric, electrical and magnetic, thermal, mechanica l, optical domains and interrelationships; transducers. 3. Measurement e rrors and uncertainty; true values, errors and uncertainty; basic defini tions; measurement error and probability theory; density functions; expe ctation, variance and standard deviation; statistical inference; histogr ams; mean and standard deviation; uncertainty analysis; uncertainty and error propagation; characterization of errors; error reduction technique s. 4. Analogue signal conditioning; analogue amplifiers; analogue filter s; modulation and detection. 5. Digital signal conditioning; (binary) si gnals and codes; sampling; reconstruction of the analogue signal; sampli ng devices and multiplexers; digital functions; hardware for digital sig nal conditioning. 6. Analogue to digital and digital to analogue convers ion. 7. Measurement; thermal and optical quantities, magnetic quantities time and time-related quantities. 8. Measurement of mechanical quantiti