Sensors and Transducers

✍ Scribed by Ian Sinclair

• Publisher: Newnes
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is an extremely elementary introduction to the subject. There is nothing wrong with it, but I would rate it at the high school level, and not suitable for advanced study.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface to third edition......Page 8
Preface to first edition......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Strain and pressure......Page 16
2 Position, direction, distance and motion......Page 36
3 Light and associated radiation......Page 68
4 Temperature sensors and thermal transducers......Page 102
5 Sound, infrasound and ultrasound......Page 131
6 Solids, liquids and gases......Page 157
7 Environmental sensors......Page 185
8 Other sensing methods......Page 212
9 Instrumentation techniques......Page 221
10 Switch principles......Page 248
11 Switch mechanisms......Page 263
12 Signal-carrying switches......Page 285
Appendix A......Page 305
Appendix B......Page 308
Index......Page 312