EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN

THERMAL ENGINEERING

P M V Subbarao
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department

Man is the measure of All things . .

Measurement is the cornerstone of our life .
.
•“When you can measure what you are speaking
about, and express it in numbers, you know
something about it;
• but when you cannot measure it in numbers,
your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory
kind . . . ”.
No amount of experimentation can ever
•-- Lord
prove me right; Kelvin
a single experiment can
prove me wrong.

--Albert Einstein
 Theory of Measurements

Philosophy of Measurements
Why do We Need to Measure?
 Why do We Need Measurement?

• If we are living in a cave, we need not measure to a precise

standard.
• We might be having fire, stick and stone tools in our cave.
• There, starts a measurement system.
• Like when you grunt and say how many beast you killed for
dinner, 1, 2 or 3.....measurements.
• When gathering wood for a fire you would ask for so much
wood.....measurement.
• To live in our physical world we need to understand it (The
Knowledge).
 What is Present?
• Measurement is KEY to the knowledge and interaction.
• A Science & Technology of a measured understanding.
• Science is about doing and making, not just thinking.
• It is crucially an experimental activity, directed to measurement.
• In Engineering & Technology;
• Responsible people seek the most measured way to understand
their situation.
• Any inquiry will get ignited as Engineering only when its
practitioners become serious about the practice of measurement.
• Measurement functions not simply to furnish a test of some
theory, but rather as a direct argument to a specific theoretical
conclusion .
• The more the measured understanding is in practice, the more
harmonizing its engagement of the evidence will be.
 Mahatama: The True Practitioner

Set Measures of Humanity……..

--Dignity of Labour
--Non-violence
--Satyagraha