Course 5.

Electrical and Electronic Measurements (Video Course)

Faculty Coordinator(s) :

1. Prof. V. Jagadeesh Kumar

Department of Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai 600 036

Email : vjkumar@ee.iitm.ernet.in

Telephone : (91-44) Off : 2257 8380

Res : 2257 9380

Detailed Syllabus :

Lecture Topics to be covered

1,2 Units of measurement – the Fundamental units of SI, derived units, conversion
factors

2,3 Errors in measurement – systematic errors – propagation of errors

4 Presentation of data – significant figures – rules for rounding off

5,6 random errors – treatment – Gaussian distribution – combination of random errors

7,8 Analog indicating instruments-the PMMC, rectifier, MI and electrostatic type meters

9,10 Electro-dynamic type watt meter, induction type energy meter

11,12 True RMS meters, PWM type wattmeter

13,14 Wheatstone bridge, Kelvin bridge, Megger

15,16 Maxwell bridge, Anderson bridge, Wien bridge and Schering bridge

17,18 transformer ratio bridge

19 Q meter

20,21 Vector impedance analyzer

22,23 Instrument transformers – CT/PT

24 Measurement of errors of instrument transformers

25 Digital systems – quantization

26,27 Counter timer

28,29 Analog to digital converters, flash, successive approximation type

30,31 Dual slope ADC – digital multimeter

32,33 The CRT, analog oscilloscope,

34 Digital oscilloscope

35-37 Virtual instrumentation