Sensors and Transducers

Ian Sinclair9780750649322, 0750649321

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 introduction to the selection and application of sensors, transducers and switches, and a grounding in the practicalities of designing with these devices.The devices covered encompass heat, light and motion, environmental sensing, sensing in industrial control, and signal-carrying and non-signal switches.Get up to speed in this key topic through this leading practical guideUnderstand the range of technologies and applications before specifyingGain a working knowledge with a minimum of maths

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
Preface to third edition……Page 7
Preface to first edition……Page 9
Introduction……Page 11
1 Strain and pressure……Page 15
2 Position, direction, distance and motion……Page 35
3 Light and associated radiation……Page 67
4 Temperature sensors and thermal transducers……Page 101
5 Sound, infrasound and ultrasound……Page 130
6 Solids, liquids and gases……Page 156
7 Environmental sensors……Page 184
8 Other sensing methods……Page 211
9 Instrumentation techniques……Page 220
10 Switch principles……Page 247
11 Switch mechanisms……Page 262
12 Signal-carrying switches……Page 284
Appendix A……Page 304
Appendix B……Page 307
Index……Page 311