MAE 3340 Instrumentation and Measurements
Links to Recorded Lectures
-- Week 1
- Lecture 1, January 9 2016
- Introduction and Overview
- Introduction to Measurements
- Lecture 2, January 12 2016
- Measurements Background concluded
- Classifying measurement error
- Lecture 3, January 16 2016
- Lab1 Overview and Expectations
- Introduction to Error Classification
- Sample Mean, Standard Deviation, Instrument Resolution, and Total Measurement Uncertainty
-- Week 2
- Lecture 4, January 20 2016
- Classification of Error (concluded)
- Resolution Error and the Least Significant Bit
- Error Propagation Formula
- Lecture 5, January 22 2016
- More examles of Resolution
- Resolution Error and the Least Significant Bit
- Introduction to Labview
- Lab 2 Overview
- Lab 2 Programming example
-- Week 3
- Lecture 6, January 25 2016
- Introduction to Ohm, Kirchoff Laws
- Thevenin Equivalent Circuit
- Voltage Divider Example
- Types of Resistances
- Lecture 7, January 25 2016
- Ohm, Kirchoff Laws, review
- Analog Measurand as a Waveform
- Classification of Waveforms
- Lecture 8, January 27 2016
- Lab 3 Preview
- Two Wave Motion and Heterodyning
- Complex periodic waveforms
- Introduction to Fourier Series
-- Week 4
- Lecture 9, February 1 2016
- Homework 3 Q&A, Fourier series continued
- Lecture 10, February 3 2016
- Fourier Decomposition Exmples
- Distcretization, Aliasing, and the Nyquist frequency
- Bandwith Resolution and the Samle Length, T
- Lecture 11, February 5 2016
-- Week 5
- Lecture 12, February 8 2016
- Homework 3 Q&A
- Introduction to Probability Theory
- Gauss Density and Distribution Functions
- Lecture 13, February 12 2016
- Homework 2, 3 Q&A, Review
- Gauss Density and Distribution Functions, Cont'd
-- Week 6
- Lecture 14, February 16 2016
- Quantitative probability assessment
- Confidence intervals using Gauss distribution
- Introduction to Student-t distribution
- Lecture 15, February 17 2016
- Comparing Gauss and Student T density/distribution functions
- T-test comparing two means
- Lecture 16, February 19 2016
- Lab 4 Heterodyning review
- Lab 5 (Wheatstone Bridge) Preview
-- Week 7
- Lecture 17, February 22 2016
- Overview of Historgram VI for Lab 5
- Example of Hypothesis Testing Using t-test
- Lecture 18, February 24 2016
- Introduction to the Method of Least Squares
- Linear Algorithm Derivation
- Polynominal Algorithm Derivation
- Example Curve Fits
- Lecture 19, February 26 2016
- Midterm Exam Preview
- Method of Least Squares
- Example Curve Fits
- Estimating the Uncertainty in the Fit Equation
-- Week 8
- Lecture 20, February 29 2016
- Midterm Exam Preview Examples
-- Week 9
- Lecture 21, March 14 2016
- Lab 6 Preview (from Spring 2015)
- Lecture 22, March 16 2016
- Lecture 23, March 18 2016
- Lab 5 error analysis review
- Strain-based load measurements
-- Week 10
- Lecture 24, March 23 2016
- Strain Gauge Measurements (concluded),
- Introduction to Op Amps
- Lecture 24, March 23 2016
- Homwork 6 Q&A
- Introduction to Op Amaps (continued)
-- Week 11
- Lecture 25, March 28 2016
- Lecture 26, March 30 2016
- Differential Amplifiers and Common Mode Nois Rrejection
- Introduction to Temperaure Measurments
- Lecture 27, April 1 2016
- Final Project Preview
- Thermocouple Background Theory Icontinued)
-- Week 12
-- Week 13
- Lecture 28, April 11 2016
- Lecture 29, April 13 2016
-- Week 14
- Lecture 30, April 18 2016