chapter 1. Introduction -- chapter 2. General properties of measuring-recording systems -- chapter 3. Studying pulse processes -- chapter 4. Photographic methods of experimental research and high-speed photography -- chapter 5. Fourier optics and Fourier spectroscopy -- chapter 6. Methods of spectroscopy -- chapter 7. Interferometry and shadowgraphy methods -- chapter 8. Holographic methods of research -- chapter 9. Electromagnetic probing -- chapter 10. Measurements in the x-ray region of the spectrum -- chapter 11. Corpuscular investigation methods -- chapter 12. Methods of experimental data processing.