Strain Gauge
Filter
Hodge-podge
Potpurri
Trivia and some useful
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120 or 350 Ohms

What is the nominal resistance of most strain gauges?

100

It gets rid of high frequency noise in a signal.

What is a low pass filter?

100

The Troughton bar was an example of this.

What is a standard (for length)?

100

A device that reduces the amplitude of a signal, often a voltage divider.

What is an attenuator?

100

The best app to interface with the sensors in an iphone.

What is physics tool box?

200
4 resistors, power supply.

What makes up a Wheatstone Bridge?

200

Allows frequencies in a specified range to go through

What is a band pass filter?

200

2.54 cm.

What is an inch?

200

What to do when a signal to too small for a digitizer.

What is amplify?

200

A L-shaped flow measurement device that measures the velocity of flow at a specific location.

What is a pitot tube?

300

The typical value of a strain gauge's gauge factor?


What is 2?

300

A filter used to get rid of low frequency components of a signal.

What is a high pass filter?

300
The component of a measurement system from which the measurement is read or retained in memory.

What is the display?

300

It has the initials LDA.

What is laser doppler anemometer?

300
The musical instrument that my wife plays.

What is the violin?

400

The status of a bridge when Vout = 0

What is when a bridge circuit is balanced?

400

Some one who was kicked out of a musical group?

What is a band reject?

400

Fast Fourier Transform, digital filter, correlation calculation, for example.

What are processes that a DSP stage of a measurement system might do?

400

The sensor that the Davis II weather station uses to sense air velocity.

What is a cup anemometer?

400

The place where Prof. Thomas and his wife took a trip on their 10th wedding anniversary.

Where is Block Island?

500

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What is modulus of elasticity?

500

Two circuit components that are typically used to create a filter.

What are a capacitor and resistor?

500

Describes a measurement device that includes paperwork linking it to a calibration at a national lab in the US.

What is NIST traceable?

500

What you need to know if you want to know the two types of metals in a particular thermocouple.

What is type?

500

The thing to buy if you want see birds eating bird seed.

What is a bird buddy?

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