A potential divider circuit with one of the resistors being a thermistors can be used as a temperature sensing circuit.As the temperature increases the resistance of the thermistor decreases and the potential difference across the thermistor decreases whilst the p.d. across the other resistor increases.
Sensing Circuits
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Specification: OCR Physics A (H156), AS-level, 4.3.3 Potential dividers. Topic: Electricity.
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