Today Dr. Dan Ewert held a learning conversation on Instrumentation. What was very interesting is that the conversation started out with a talk about the many forms of energy that exist in the universe and the relationship of these different forms with one another. All of these various types were then condensed into four fundamental forms that we worked with for this particular session:
· Mechanical Energy
· Chemical Energy
· Nuclear Energy
The initial meaning of this discussion and how it pertained to Instrumentation was at first confusing but it started to make sense after Transducers were introduced into the talk. Essentially, when energy changes from one form to another it is due to a change in properties (chemical to electrical for instance).
What we learned today, is that Transducers and Sensors detect the changes in these properties which occur when energy changes forms.
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