A potentiometer is a resistive-type transducer that converts either linear or angular displacement into an output voltage by moving a sliding contact along the surface of a resistive element.
Professor, Dept. of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
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