Volume 3

Modernization of the measuring carriage on the interference comparator for calibrating the line scales

Authors Piotr Sosinowski - Central Office of Measures (Główny Urząd Miar)

Abstract

The article presents the measurement results together with the method for determining the geometrical errors of the air table and their impact on the measurement uncertainty of line scales.

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