Introduction to Engineering Experimentation (2nd E

Appropriate for undergraduate-level courses in Introduction to Engineering Experimentation found in departments of Mechanical Civil, and Electrical Engineering. Wheeler and Ganji introduce many topics that engineers need to master in order to plan, design and document a successful experiment or measurement system. The text offers thorough discussions of topics often ignored or merely touched upon by other texts, including modern computerized data acquisition systems, electrical output measuring devices, and in-depth coverage of experimental uncertainty analysis. - Statistics chapter expanded and enhanced - To include the Poisson distribution, multiple and polynomial regression, outlier analysis for x-y data sets and linear functions of random variables, provides students with a more comprehensive coverage of statistics at the elementary level and discusses the distribution functions that are most useful for engineering applications. - 50 percent new end of chapter homework problems, provides students with 117 new problems to test and challenge their understanding. - NEDiscrete sampling chapter revised - Fourier series presentation changed to the currently popular nomenclature, prov