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Excerpt Edition
This PDF is an excerpt from Chapter 6
of the Parametric Measurement Handbook.
The
Parametric Measurement
Handbook

Third Edition
March 2012
Chapter 6: Making Accurate Resistance Measurements
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
-- Alfred North Whitehead

Resistance measurement basics
Upon first thought it might seem strange to devote a chapter to resistance mea-
surement. After all, resistance is governed by the simplest of all rules (Ohm's
law) that every electrical engineering student learns in their first week of class:

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