One of the most common measurement errors is using the wrong tool for the job. For example, using a tape measure to estimate small mechanical tolerances or relying on a bathroom scale to track precise ...

If there is some parameter, let it be voltage or current or frequency or temperature or time or humidity or pressure or whatever, some parameter which we will call X and which somehow we need to ...

In order to measure the mechanical properties of materials in compression, tension, bending or torsion, a universal testing machine is utilized. This article outlines the two different types ...