This document contains 9 questions about measuring instruments that were asked in the first two lectures of a class. The questions cover topics like active vs passive instruments, advantages of null vs deflection instruments, differences between analog and digital instruments, static characteristics of instruments, definitions of accuracy and precision, and examples of calculating measurement errors based on given instrument specifications.
This document contains 9 questions about measuring instruments that were asked in the first two lectures of a class. The questions cover topics like active vs passive instruments, advantages of null vs deflection instruments, differences between analog and digital instruments, static characteristics of instruments, definitions of accuracy and precision, and examples of calculating measurement errors based on given instrument specifications.
This document contains 9 questions about measuring instruments that were asked in the first two lectures of a class. The questions cover topics like active vs passive instruments, advantages of null vs deflection instruments, differences between analog and digital instruments, static characteristics of instruments, definitions of accuracy and precision, and examples of calculating measurement errors based on given instrument specifications.
(a) Active instruments (b) Passive instruments 2. Give examples of each and discuss the relative merits of these two classes of Instruments? 3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of null and deflection types of measuring instruments. What are null types of instruments mainly used for and why? 4. What are the differences between analogue and digital instruments? What advantages do digital instruments have over analogue ones? 5. Briefly define and explain all the static characteristics of measuring instruments. 6. How the accuracy of an instrument is usually defined? 7. What is the difference between accuracy and precision? 8. A tungsten resistance thermometer with a range of –270 to þ1100_C has a quoted inaccuracy of _1.5% of full- scale reading. What is the likely measurement error when it is reading a temperature of 950_C? 9. What is the measurement range for a micrometer designed to measure diameters between 5.0 and 7.5 cm?