Introduction to Transducers
1.0 Transducers
A measurement system is concerned with the representation of one physical phenomenon by another. The purpose of the measurement system is for the measurement and control of a physical system.
In Part 1 of this book, we are mainly interested in transducers.
• A sensor is a device which responds to a physical stimulus
• A transducer is a device which converts a physical stimulus to another form of energy (usually electrical)
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