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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
86-1
86.1 Introduction
Most sensors and instruments described in the previous chapters of this handbook can produce con-
tinuous measurements in time or sequential measurements at xed or variable time intervals, as repre-
sented in Figure 86.1. e temporal patterns resulting from such measurements are usually referred to
as si
gnals
. Si
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ca
n
ei
ther
be co
ntinuous
or di
screte in time
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e
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equencies
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chniques
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