A digital thermometer employs a thermistor as the temperature-sensing element. A thermistor is a kind of semiconductor

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A digital thermometer employs a thermistor as the temperature-sensing element. A thermistor is a kind of semiconductor and has a large negative temperature coefficient of resistivity α. Suppose that α = -0.060 (C°)-1 for the thermistor in a digital thermometer used to measure the temperature of a patient. The resistance of the thermistor decreases to 85% of its value at the normal body temperature of 37.0 °C. What is the patient's temperature?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-1118486894

10th edition

Authors: David Young, Shane Stadler

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