Plate 6

1. Studying surface metrology helps one to understand measuring a surface completely and
accurately where one must know how to measure in order to avoid discrepancies and errors.

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3. Surface irregularities are cause by inaccurate machining of the material, lack of precision in
using of machine that manufactured that part.

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5. Comparison measurement on surface roughness means that one will measure the same
material but more smooth than the rough one and compare it to the rough material. Direct
measurement means one will measure dimensions of the rough material.
6. One of the major features of the stylus system is that it automatically records measurements
from a material where it conducts a series of measurement so that the accuracy of
measurement is high enough where there is small amount of errors in measurement.
7. Skid-less profilometer has its probe bare where there is no skid to guide its movement. Because
of this no skid, the probe can measure not just only the dimension but also the depth or
roughness of the surface of the material. Skid-type profilometer has its probe has skid that
guides it providing enough accuracy to measure the entire dimension of the surface.

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10. Profilometer is an instrument that can measure the thickness, depth, and crevices of the surface
of a material.
11. As the skid moves along the surface, the probe acts as the tail of the skid, following the path of
the skid and recording what will be the cover path along the surface of the material.
12. Cut-off wavelength is the minimum wavelength where a particular fiber is still acts a single fiber
in this length.
13. The interferometry technique can measure the surface irregularities without having contact
with the surface.
14. This instrument assesses the surface through its frictional property and the average slope of the
irregularities.