Before proceeding to the topic of sensors, you may
find it helpful to know the scientific basis
of "Sensitivity". What properties and /or physical
phenomena can modern sensors "sense"?
- ACCELERATION: Linear; Rotational
- Acoustic Emission
- Airborne Particles
- Altitude
- CHEMICAL/GAS: Ammonia; Carbon Dioxide; Carbon Monoxide; Chlorine;
Dissolved Oxygen; Hydrocarbons; Hydrogen; Hydrogen Sulfide; Ion Selective;
Electrodes; Nitrogen; NOx; Organic Compounds; ORP (REDOX); Oxygen; Ozone;
pH; Sulfur Dioxide; Color; Combustion; Condensation; Density; Displacement;
Distance, Ranging
- ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES: Admittance; Capacitance; Charge; Conductance;
Conductivity; Current; Eddy Current; Electrodynamic; Field Strength;
Frequency; Impedance; Inductance; Microwave Radiation; Power; Radio
Frequency; Resistance; Resistivity; Voltage
- Energy, BTU-heat
- Flame
- FLOW: Gas; Laminar;
Liquid; Mass; Suspended Solids/Bubbles
- Force
- Friction
- Gas, see Chemical/Gas
- Humidity
- Ice
- Inertia
- LEVEL: Liquid; Slurry; Solid
- LIGHT: Infrared; Ultraviolet; Visible
- MAGNETIC: Direction; Field Strength; Reluctance
- Mass
- Moisture
- Motion
- Noise
- POSITION, ANGULAR: Absolute; Incremental
- POSITION, LINEAR: Absolute; Incremental
- Presence/Proximity
- PRESSURE: Absolute; Barometric;
Blood; Differential; Fluid; Gas; Gauge; Vacuum
- RADIATION DETECTORS, N&P: Alpha; Beta; Gamma; Neutron; Photons;
Radioactivity; Solar; X-ray
- Shape
- SOUND: Amplitude; Frequency
- STRAIN: Compression; Shear; Tension
- Surface Condition
- Temperature
- THERMAL PROPERTIES: Conductivity; Dispersion; Emissivity; Flow; Flux
- Thickness
- Tilt
- Torque
- Turbidity
- VELOCITY: Angular; Linear
- Vibration/Shock
- Viscosity
- Weight
- WIND: Direction; Speed
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