Modern techniques in metrology / edited by Paul L. Hewitt



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1984

Modern techniques in metrology / edited by Paul L. Hewitt

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"Modern techniques in metrology for developing countries" is essentially the technical proceedings of the regional workshop on metrology for developing countries. The objectives of the Workshop were to examine the essential elements in the development of a national measurement system, and the role of regional cooperation in this regard.

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Mensuration

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Title
Modern techniques in metrology / edited by Paul L. Hewitt
Subject
  • Mensuration
Publisher
  • World Scientific Pub., 1984
  • National Library Board Singapore, 1984
Contributors
  • Hewitt, Paul L.
  • National Measurement Laboratory (Australia)
Digital Description
application/pdf, ill.
Table of Contents
  • Preface -- Australia's measurement system -- The BIPM and the Asia/Pacific metrology programme -- Laboratory accreditation - Its role in national and international trade -- Work of the mass-and-related-quantities group -- Calibration of masses -- Laboratory pressure-measuring instruments and their calibration -- Density measurement of solids and liquids -- Calibration of standards of length -- Angle standards and their calibration -- Lasers, interferometry and the measurement of length -- The measurement of surface roughness -- Should calibration facilities be based on primary or secondary temperature standards? -- Techniques for the calibration of liquid-in-glass thermometers -- Platinum resistance thermometry -- An approach to thermocouple calibration based on the distributed nature of thermo-emf -- Calibration of visual optical pyrometers -- Applied physics and the electrical units -- Precise DC resistance measurements -- Secondary standards of electromotive force in a standards laboratory -- Calibration of resistance ratios -- Electrical standards in CSIRO and the measurement of AC current, voltage, power and energy -- AC-DC transfer of voltage and current -- The AC-DC transfer method of AC power standardization -- The use and calibration of instrument ttransformers -- High-voltage measurements at the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics.
Copyright
  • All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.