Principles of Electrical Measurement and Measuring Instruments

This book covers the topics in Electrical and Electronic Measurements at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Most universities prescribe a compulsory course covering these topics at the undergraduate level. The book also covers advanced concepts taught in postgraduate degree programme in Instrumentation. The book is a Textbook for an undergraduate degree program in Electrical, Electronics, Control and Instrumentation engineering.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Units and Standards.- Chapter 2: Analog Indicating Instruments.- Chapter 3: Errors in Measurements.- Chapter 4: Potentiometers.- Chapter 5: Bridge methods.- Chapter 6: Voltage and Current Scaling.- Chapter 7: Graphical Methods of Measurement.- Chapter 8: Timers and Counters.- Chapter 9: Analog to Digital Converters.- Chapter 10: Miscellaneous methods.

About the author

Dr. V. Jagadeesh Kumar (Life Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in ECE from the College of Engineering, Guindy, in 1978, and the M. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, in 1980 and 1986, respectively. He was with King’s College London in 1988, the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, in 1996, the Braunschweig University of Technology in 1999, and RWTH Aachen University in 1999, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras. He has published 60 journal articles (mostly in IEEE Journals) and presented 120 papers in international conferences. He had taught the UG course on Principles of Measurements and the PG course on Measurements and Instrumentation for four decades at IIT Madras.

Product details

• Authors: V Jagadeesh Kumar, V. Jagadeesh Kumar, Jagadeesh Kumar V, Jagadeesh Kumar V.
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9789819654741
• ISBN: 978-981-9654-74-1
• No. of pages: 434
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 24 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 865 g
• Illustrations: XV, 434 p. 387 illus., 251 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Elektronik, Instrumentation, Errors, Wissenschaftliche Standards, Normung usw., Instruments, Digital Methods, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Measurements, Instrument Transformers