Instrumentation and Measurement
Whether you’re baking cookies, checking the weather, estimating how long it will take to walk to a friend’s house, or checking your temperature to see if you are getting sick, you rely on measurement to make sense of the world.
Measurement is happening all around you. Every day, instruments quietly monitor the world, keep people safe, and help technology work the way you expect.
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Measuring The World
In this eBook, you’ll discover how scientists and engineers use instruments to collect reliable data, how shared measurement standards help people around the world communicate and work together, and why measurement quality is essential in science and engineering.
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