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Nawrocki, Waldemar  Measurement systems and sensors.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and effort of many people who helped me at different phases of preparing this book.

Large parts of this book are the translation from my handbook, Sensors and Measurement Systems, published in Polish at Poznan University of Technology (PUT) in 2001. I thank the Rector of PUT for his permission to use parts of the handbook for...