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Syllabus

MODULE NO / UNIT	COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE	NOTES
Course Code: EI-PC-203 Course Name: Basic Instrumentation Engineering
1	Introduction: Block diagram of measuring instruments, characteristics of instruments, classification of instruments, classification of standards, error in measurement, relative, systematic, random error, parabolic errors. Standards, True Value, Errors (Gross, Systematic, Random); Static Characteristic of Instruments (Accuracy, Precision, Sensitivity, Resolution & threshold). Classification of Instruments(Absolute & Secondary Instruments; Indicating, Recording & Integrating instruments; Based upon Principle of operation), Generalized Instrument (Block diagram, description of blocks).
2	Indicating Instruments:Three forces in Electromechanical indicating instrument, Comparison between gravity & spring controls; Comparison of damping methods & their suitability, bearing supports, pivot-less supports (Simple & taut-band), Scale information. Recorders: Strip chart recorders, galvanometric recorders, null type recorders, potentiometric recorders, X-Y recorders, ultraviolet recorders, magnetic tape recorders, FM recorders and their merits and demerits, pulse duration modulation (PDM) recorders & digital tape recorders (RB, RZ, NRZ-M and NRZ-C).
3	Tachometers: DC tachometers, AC tachometers, Bearing tachometers, magnetic speed sensors, impulse tachometers, stroboscopic tachometers, variable-reluctance tachometers, photoelectric tachometers, eddy current tachometers, hydraulic tachometers, vibration measurement. Accelerometers: Bonded strain gauge accelerometer, Piezoelectric accelerometer, seismic mass accelerometer, servo accelerometer and digital accelerometer.
4	Potentiometers: DC potentiometers, Basic potentiometer circuit, Compton type & multiple range potentiometer, constructional details & precision type potentiometers & their applications, AC potentiometer, Power meter, field strength meter, phase meter, vector impedance meter, Q meter, LCR bridge.