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Measuring
Weight
and
Pressure
Methods:
I. Mechanical
Instrument
1. Spring Scale- a balance that measure
weight by the tension on a helical spring.
It is simply a spring fixed at one end with
a hook to attach an object at the other.
Spring balances' main uses are industrial,
especially related to weighing heavy
loads such as trucks, storage silos, and
material carried on a conveyor belt. They
are also common in science education as
basic accelerometers. A spring balance
measures the weight of an object by
opposing the force of gravity with the
force of an extended spring.
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III. Electrical
Instruments
1. Mass Spectrometer- an instrument
which can measure the masses and
relative concentrations of atoms and
molecules.
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II. Electronic
Instrument
1. Piezoresistive Strain Gage- Uses
the piezoresistive effect of bonded or
formed strain gauges to detect strain
due to applied pressure.
2. Capacitive- Uses a diaphragm and
3. Piezoelectric- Uses
the piezoelectric effect in certain
materials such as quartz to measure
the strain upon the sensing
mechanism due to pressure.
III. Electrical
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Instrument
1. Hot Cathode ionization gauge- It is
composed mainly of three electrodes
acting together. The three electrodes
are a collector or plate, afilament,
and a grid. The collector current is
measured in picoamps by
an electrometer.
2. Pirani- A gauge consist of a metal
wire open to the pressure being
measured.
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