MET 310 Sensors, Transducers and Actuators CA 2022

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MET 310 Continuous Assessment, Academic year 2021/2022 (informally headed 25-item problem set), University of Buea: sensors/actuators in homes and appliances, identification of sensing/transduction/actuation functions in a mercury thermometer and ultrasonic transducer, active/passive classification of 8 everyday sensors, insect sensing mechanisms, river-health monitoring properties, bimetal-strip-thermometer classification, divining-rod sensing/transduction classification; classification of a hot-wire mass-airflow sensor, a cooling-fan DC motor, a vehicle oxygen sensor, a thermal fuse, the outdoor thermometer, and a thermocouple; derivation of SI base units for the ohm, tesla, N.m torque and the watt; torque unit conversion to lbf.ft; mole calculation from weighed grams-force; TB/MB digital-data byte/bit conversions; optical-fiber dB power-loss calculation; and human-ear acoustic-pressure dB span and hearing-protector attenuation calculations.