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Handbook of Modern Sensors: Physics, Designs, and Applications

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I think this book is great. It has a good portion dedicated to introduction to instrumentation and a lot of what I thought was fairly obscure knowledge about different sensors. It wasn't as in-depth as I would have liked when it came to how individual sensors might be designed, but that would make it into a pretty heavy book in retrospect.

This book lacks any discussion of several important types of sensors for chemical and biological applications. These gaps were apparent to me only because I was looking for a book that discussed those sensors. Not finding any mention of them left me wondering what else the book is missing.

This book assumes that you that you already know circuits well, and it doesn't explain things clearly. Most explanations are terse and skip many details or logical reasoning. I didn't learn much from reading through this book, and some of the assumptions that the book makes about flow sensors (using Bernoulli's equation for turbulent/nonlaminar, lossy flow) are just blatantly wrong. Mostly dense theory, and extremely unhelpful as a reference or educational resource. Not recommended. You're better off buying Introduction to Mechatronic Design (Carryer, Ohline, and Kennedy), which is much better at explaining and showing how certain sensors work, and actually how to incorporate them into real-world applications.

Very comprehensive on the different types of sensors out there and underlying theory of operation.