UNIT 1:
Introduction to instrument systems, classifications, functional elements of a measurement system, standards and calibration, static performance characteristics, measurement errors and uncertainties, analysis, sequential and random test, specifications of instrument static characteristics, data acquisition, reduction, data outliner detection,

UNIT 2:
Dynamic characteristics of the instruments, formulation of system equations, dynamic response, compensation, periodic input, harmonic signal non harmonic signal, Fourier transform, response to the transient input, response to random signal input, first and second order system compensation,

UNIT 3:
(a) Temperature measurements, thermometry based on thermal expansion, liquid in glass, bimetallic, electric resistance- thermometry, thermocouples, thermistors, detectors, (b) pressure and velocity measurements, barometer, manometer, dead weight tester, pressure gauges and transducers, dynamic measurements,(c) flow measurements, pressure differential meters, orifice meter, venturi meter, rota-meter,

UNIT 4:
strain gauges, strain and stress measurements, electrical circuits, compensations, motion force and torque measurements, displacement measurements, potentiometers, linear and rotary variable differential transformers, velocity measurements, electromagnetic technique, stroboscope, load cell, measurement of torque on rotating shaft, power estimation from rotating shaft.

UNIT 5:
Control systems, open loop and close loop control, mathematical modeling of dynamic systems – mechanical systems, electrical systems, fluid systems, thermal systems, transfer function, impulse response function, block diagrams of close loop systems, system modeling using software.