Fred Abse said:
Keithley Instruments publish a small book on low level measurements,
obviously with their instruments in mind, but which does contain quite a
lot of useful stuff.
I'll look into it. I have a collection of documents from them on various
measurements one can do and various experiments. They aren't a book but
I could see them being bound as one. I got it from them a couple of decades
ago along with a price list. It includes the following items:
(1) Electrical Engineering Experiment #1 (Series I). Uses of test
instruments: digital multimeter and oscilloscope. Dated 1985.
(2) Electrical Engineering Experiment #2 (Series I). Kirchofft's Laws
and Thevenin & Norton Equivalent Circuits.
(3) Electrical Engineering Experiment #3 (Series I). Linear op amp circuits
(4) Electrical Engineering Experiment #4 (Series I). NonLinear op amp circuits
(5) Electrical Engineering Experiment #5 (Series I). Transistor amplifiers
(6) Electrical Engineering Experiment #6 (Series I). Step response of
passive circuits
(7) Electrical Engineering Experiment #1 (Series II). Silicon controlled
rectifier
(8) Electrical Engineering Experiment #2 (Series II). Field effect transistors
(9) Electrical Engineering Experiment #3 (Series II). Digital to analog
conversion
(10) Electrical Engineering Experiment #4 (Series II). Voltage controllable
differential current source
(11) Electrical Engineering Experiment #5 (Series II). Digital to analog
conversion and the operational amplifier
(12) Electrical Engineering Experiment #6 (Series II). Conditining a current
sourcing device for analog to digital conversion
(13) Physics experiment #1. Microcomputer controlled data acquisition
and analysis systems
(14) Physics experiment #2. Franck-Hertz experiment (This uses, in addition
to Keithley equipment, a mercury filled triode available, in 1985, from
Klinger Scientific Apparatus, 83-45 Parsons Blvd, Jamaica 32, NY. One
of the Keithley items is a Keithley Model 480 Digital Picoammeter
selling for $695, in 1985, unless one gets it with the optional
IEEE-488 interface mentioned in the experiment, which brings the
price up to $1020. Also uses Commodore PET.)
(15) Physics Experiment #3. Grating spectrometer-Rydberg constant
(16) Physics Experiment #4. Energy gap in a semiconductor
(17) Physics Experiment #5. Photoelectric effect
(18) Physics Experiment #6. The electric field
(19) Physics Experiment #1 (Series II) Franck-Hertz experiment (This
specifies a Leybold 555-80 tube or equivalent. I think Klinger and
Leybold are connected somehow.)
(20) Physics Experiment #2 (Series II) The determination of the B vs H curves
and the hysteresis loop of magnetic materials by the Rowland ring
ballistic step method
(21) Physics Experiment #3 (Series II) The charge of an electron
(22) Physics Experiment #4 (Series II) Temperature measuring instrumentation:
thermistors
(23) Physics Experiment #5 (Series II) Thermocouples and temperature
transducers
(24) Physics Experiment #6 (Series II) The study of the LED as a light
detector
In addition to these, I have one or two dozen application notes on topics
ranging from "Guarding vs. Isolation in DMMs" to "Uranium systems
calibration for the Keithley model 642 electrometer".
It all seems like valuable information if you can figure out a way around
the fact that you can't afford any of the equipment.