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  2. Wheatstone bridge - Wikipedia

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    A Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component. The primary benefit of the circuit is its ability to provide extremely accurate measurements (in contrast with something like a simple voltage divider ). [ 1 ]

  3. Samuel Hunter Christie - Wikipedia

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    However, the method went unrecognised until 1843, when Charles Wheatstone proposed it, in another paper [3] for the Royal Society, for measuring resistance in electrical circuits. Although Wheatstone presented it as Christie's invention, it is his name, rather than Christie's, that is now associated with the device.

  4. Load cell - Wikipedia

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    A Wheatstone bridge is a configuration of four balanced resistors with a known excitation voltage applied as shown below: Excitation voltage V EX {\displaystyle V_{\text{EX}}} is a known constant and output voltage V o {\textstyle V_{o}} is variable depending on the shape of the strain gauges.

  5. Bridge circuit - Wikipedia

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    The best-known bridge circuit, the Wheatstone bridge, was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie and popularized by Charles Wheatstone, and is used for measuring resistance. It is constructed from four resistors, two of known values R 1 and R 3 (see diagram), one whose resistance is to be determined R x , and one which is variable and calibrated R 2 .

  6. Null detector - Wikipedia

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    Wheatstone Bridge (1833, 1843): The Wheatstone bridge, invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and popularized/improved by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843, was an early method for measuring electrical resistance. Early Wheatstone bridges used galvanometers, but their sensitivity and precision were limited by the galvanometer's electromotive ...

  7. Differential amplifier - Wikipedia

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    A differential amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier that amplifies the difference between two input voltages but suppresses any voltage common to the two inputs. [1] It is an analog circuit with two inputs and + and one output , in which the output is ideally proportional to the difference between the two voltages:

  8. Voltage divider - Wikipedia

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    Voltage dividers are used for adjusting the level of a signal, for bias of active devices in amplifiers, and for measurement of voltages. A Wheatstone bridge and a multimeter both include voltage dividers. A potentiometer is used as a variable voltage divider in the volume control of many radios.

  9. Wien bridge oscillator - Wikipedia

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    William R. Hewlett's Wien bridge oscillator can be considered as a combination of a differential amplifier and a Wien bridge, connected in a positive feedback loop between the amplifier output and differential inputs. At the oscillating frequency, the bridge is almost balanced and has very small transfer ratio.