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(More customer reviews)Boy was I disappointed. I was hoping for information on the doing computerized measurements, actually how you do it. Not at all what this book describes.
The first few chapters have some good background information on general measurement techniques, such as transducers and what they measure. Unfortunately it went down from there. A whole chapter is devoted to computer selection (a 486 is probably powerful enough!), and of course this is starting to show its age.
A large portion of the book is devoted to getting data out of some kind of data-acq board or from products like Labview (TM, R, (c), whatever), which I wasn't that interested in. Also included is lots of example code that describes how to get data of the same products. A lot of information is also devoted to IEEE-488 bus (GPIB), which while accurate, is starting to show its age.
If you're looking for a modern book on the subject of computerized measurements, this probably isn't it, and more importantly, much of the information in here is now pretty out of date.
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Drawing upon the author's special experience in experimental physics, this text is full of useful information to enable graduate students, scientists and engineers to find their way through the many computing and electronics topics associated with computerized measurement. It collects together the knowledge of several fields in an easy-to-understand manner. This book is intended for experimental scientists and practical engineers using desktop computers to control experiments and record and analyse data from them, and graduate students in science and engineering and industrial engineers.
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