Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering: Volume 3: Physics and Chemistry

A multidisciplinary reference of engineering measurement tools, techniques, and applications

"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, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science." ― Lord Kelvin

Measurement is at the heart of any engineering and scientific discipline and job function. Whether engineers and scientists are attempting to state requirements quantitatively and demonstrate compliance; to track progress and predict results; or to analyze costs and benefits, they must use the right tools and techniques to produce meaningful data.

The Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering is the most comprehensive, up-to-date reference set on engineering and scientific measurements―beyond anything on the market today. Encyclopedic in scope, Volume 3 covers measurements in physics, electrical engineering and chemistry:

• Laser Measurement Techniques
• Magnetic Force Images using Capacitive Coupling Effect
• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• Measurement of Light and Color
• The Detection and Measurement of Ionizing Radiation
• Measuring Time and Comparing Clocks
• Laboratory-Based Gravity Measurement
• Cryogenic Measurements
• Temperature-Dependent Fluorescence Measurements
• Voltage and Current Transducers for Power Systems
• Electric Power and Energy Measurement
• Chemometrics for the Engineering and Measurement Sciences
• Liquid Chromatography
• Mass Spectroscopy Measurements of Nitrotyrosine-Containing Proteins
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
• Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy
• Nanomaterials Properties
• Chemical Sensing