Answers

The following are answers to numerical problems and brief clues as to possible answers with descriptive problems.

Chapter 1

1.1 (a) Sensor, mercury; signal conditioner, fine-bore stem; display, marks on the stem; (b) Sensor, curved tube; signal conditioner, gears; display, pointer moving across a scale

1.2 See text

1.3 Comparison/controller, thermostat; correction, perhaps a relay; process, heat; variable, temperature; measurement, a temperature-sensitive device, perhaps a bimetallic strip

1.4 See Figure P.1

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Figure P.1 Problem 1.4.

1.5 See text

1.6 See text

1.7 For example: water in, rinse, water out, water in, heat water, rinse, water ...

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