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Course Description: * **Introduction to Measurements:** Systems of units, scientific notation and metric prefixes, definition of measurement, measurement standards, elements of a measurement system, and applications of measurement systems. * **Types of Instruments and Performance Characteristics:** Types of measuring instruments, static characteristics, and dynamic characteristics of instruments. * **Errors in the Measurement Process:** Gross errors, sources of systematic errors and methods for their reduction, random errors, statistical analysis of measurements, and calibration. * **Measurement Noise and Signal Processing:** Signal-to-noise ratio, sources of measurement noise (inductive coupling and capacitive coupling), signal wire locations and design, shielding, signal filtering using passive low-pass filters (LPF), high-pass filters (HPF), band-pass filters (BPF), and active second-order first-order LPF and HPF filters. * **Fundamental Components of Measurement Systems:** Instrumentation amplifiers, differential amplifiers, buffer circuits, electrical bridges, analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, and digital-to-analog (D/A) converters. * **Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments, Test, and Display:** Digital meters, analog meters, capacitive sensors, resistive sensors, Hall effect sensors, and piezoelectric transducers.