Sensors and transducers

In this book Ian Sinclair provides the practical knowhow required by technician engineers, systems designers and students. The focus is firmly on understanding the technologies and their different applications, not a mathematical approach. The result is a highly readable text which provides a unique...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Sinclair, Ian Robertson
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford : Newnes, 2001.
Edition3rd ed.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080516998
0080516998
9786611039257
6611039252
0750649321
9780750649322
128103925X
9781281039255
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Sensors and Transducers; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to Third Edition; Preface to First Edition; Introduction; Chapter 1. Strain and Pressure; Chapter 2. Position direction distance and motion; Chapter 3. Light and associated radiation; Chapter 4. Temperature sensors and thermal transducers; Chapter 5. Sound, infransound and ultrasound; Chapter 6. Solids, liquids and gases; Chapter 7. Environmental senssors; Chapter 8. Other sensing methods; Chapter 9. Instrumentation techniques; Chapter 10. Switch principles; Chapter 11. Switch mechanisms.