Information and Measurement

This set of webpages is designed to cover the topics of Information and Measurement. The approach is to bring together the relevant material from Information Theory, Instrumentation, and Measurement Physics and show how the fit together. In order to make the material interesting and relevant, I have chosen to use application which may be familiar as examples. These include sections on how Compact Disc works, etc.

Note that these pages are based upon a printed book. At present, only a fraction of what is in the book is present here. The list of parts shown below corresponds to the chapters in the book. The book is currently available as a paperback published by Taylor and Francis.

Where does information come from?

Signals and messages.

Noise.

The sampling theorem.

The information carrying capacity of a channel.

Analog or digital?

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Content and pages maintained by: Jim Lesurf (jcgl@st-and.ac.uk)
using TechWriter Pro and HTMLEdit on a RISC OS machine.
University of St. Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland.