Trying to gain a better understanding of laboratory experiments

[hotcommodity]

I'm not nearly as good at laboratory work as I'd like to be. I'm therefore searching for a book (or books) that describe, at an introductory level, the following topics:

- Methods of using computer code to interface with hardware (e.g. using GPIB/IEEE addresses to extract information from hardware devices, etc.). Preferably, I'd like a book that uses MATLAB, C++, or Java.

- Understanding what the hardware actually does. And by hardware, I mean the devices that you'd typically find in a physics lab: oscilloscopes, function generators, lock-in amplifiers, etc.

I've searched all over Amazon for introductory books that discuss these topics, but to no avail. Any suggestions are of course appreciated.

 

[R.Mesri]

One book that could help you with understanding hardware is "Getting Started with Sensors: Measure the World with Electronics, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi" by Kimmo Karvinen and Tero Karvinen. The book provides an introduction to various sensors, such as accelerometers, microphones, light sensors, and temperature sensors, and provides detailed instructions on how to use them with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. For interfacing with hardware using computer code, I recommend "LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun" by Jeff Bachiochi. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to LabVIEW, a graphical programming language for programming hardware interfaces. It includes tutorials and examples to help you get started with LabVIEW quickly and easily.