Engineering Metrology MCQs

Who made the following classic statement. "When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, and when you can't express it in numbers, your knowledge, is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thought advanced to the stage of science.

The ease with which observations can be made accurately is referred to as

Accuracy of measuring equipment is

Which of the following errors are generally distributed in accordance with the Gaussian distribution

Tolerances are specified

Which of the following is the most important characteristic of a measuring instrument in general

Sensitivity and range of measuring instrument have

Systematic errors are

Precision of measuring equipment is