Handbook of modern sensors physics, designs, and applications by Fraden, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…Data acquisition -- Transfer functions -- Sensor characteristics -- Physical principles of sensing -- Optical components of sensors -- Interface electronic circuits -- Detectors of humans -- Presence, displacement, and level -- Velocity and acceleration -- Force and strain -- Pressure sensors -- Flow sensors -- Microphones -- Humidity and moisture sensors -- Light detectors -- Detectors of ionizing radiation -- Temperature sensors -- Chemical and biological sensors -- Materials and technologies…”

Audio in media by Alten, Stanley R.

Table of Contents: “…Loudspeakers and Monitoring. -- 5. Microphones. -- 6. Mixers, Consoles, and Control Surfaces. -- 7. …”

ActionScript 3.0 bible by Braunstein, Roger, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Part 5: Working With Error Handling -- 19: Understanding errors -- Comparing ways to fail -- Understanding exceptions -- Catching errors generated by Flash -- Custom exceptions -- Handling asynchronous errors -- Summary -- 20: Using the AVM2 debugger -- Introducing debugging -- Launching the debugger -- Taking control of execution -- Pulling back the curtain -- Navigating through code -- Debugging a simple example -- Using the debugger effectively -- Summary -- 21: Making your application fault-tolerant -- Developing a strategy -- Determining what errors to handle -- Categorizing failures -- Logging errors -- Messaging the user -- Degrading styles: an example -- Summary -- Part 6: Working With External Data -- 22: Understanding networking basics -- URL request -- Using the loader -- Summary -- 23: Communicating with server-side technologies -- Communicating via URLLoader -- Flash remoting -- Summary -- 24: Saving data to a local machine using SharedObject -- Comparing approaches to persistent storage -- Identifying useful situations for shared objects -- Using SharedObjects -- Sharing information between SWFs -- Working with size constraints -- Storing custom classes -- Using serialization concepts for remoting -- Summary -- 25: Managing file uploads and downloads -- Introducing FileReference -- Uploading files -- Downloading a file -- Summary -- Part 7: Enriching Your Program With Sound And Video -- 26: Working with sound -- Creating a sound object -- Controlling playback of a sound -- Applying sound transformations -- Working with a sound's metadata -- Calculating spectrum data -- Detecting audio capabilities -- Summary -- 27: Adding video -- Working with Flash video files -- Loading FLV files into a Flash movie -- Building an FLV application -- Summary -- 28: Accessing microphones and cameras -- Introducing the camera -- Introducing the microphone -- Summary -- Part 8: Programming Graphics And Motion -- 29: Applying filters to your graphics -- Introducing filters -- Applying filters -- Adding more than one filter -- Rotating objects with filters -- Summary -- 30: Drawing vector graphics programmatically -- Lines and LineStyles -- Creating shapes -- Making a drawing application -- Summary -- 31: Scripting animation -- Animating with pure ActionScript -- Animating using Flash -- Animating using Flex -- Choosing a third-party animation toolkit -- Summary -- 32: Applying transformations to graphics -- Working with matrix transforms -- Working with color transforms -- Summary -- 33: Drawing bitmap graphics programmatically -- Creating a BitmapData object -- Applying color transformations -- Applying fills -- Detecting areas by color -- Applying effects -- Making noise -- Applying filters -- Summary -- Part 9: Working With Binary Data -- 34: Working with binary data -- Creating a byte array -- Writing to a byte array -- Reading from a byte array -- Common uses of byte arrays -- Summary -- Part 10: Deploying Your Program -- 35: Deploying Flash on the Web -- Embedding Flash in a page -- Embedding Flash using SWFObject -- Enabling Flash player options -- Passing variables to a SWF -- Automatically upgrading Flash Player -- Summary -- 36: Interfacing with JavaScript -- Communicating between JavaScript and Flash -- Summary -- 37: Using local connections to communicate between Flash applications -- Creating a sending application -- Creating a receiving application -- Sending and receiving across domains -- Summary -- Index.…”

Sensors, actuators, and their interfacesm a multidisciplinary introduction by Ida, Nathan

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction --1.2 A Short Historical Note--1.3 Definitions -- 1.4 Classification of Sensors and Actuators -- 1.5 General Requirements for Interfacing -- 1.6 Units--1.7 Problems -- 2 Performance Characteristics of Sensors and Actuators -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Input and Output Characteristics -- 2.3 Problems -- 3 Temperature Sensors and Thermal Actuators -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Thermoresistive Sensors: Thermistors, Resistance Temperature Sensors, and Silicon Resistive Sensors 3.3 Thermoelectric Sensors -- 3.4 p-n Junction Temperature Sensors 3.5 Other Temperature Sensors -- 3.6 Problems -- 4 Optical Sensors and Actuators -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Optical Units -- 4.3 Materials 4.4 Effects of Optical Radiation -- 4.5 Quantum-Based Optical Sensors 4.6 Photoelectric Sensors -- 4.7 Coupled Charge (CCD) Sensors and Detectors -- 4.8 Thermal-Based Optical Sensors -- 4.9 Active Far Infrared (AFIR) Sensors -- 4.10 Optical Actuators -- 4.11 Problems -- 5 Electric and Magnetic Sensors and Actuators -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Units -- 5.3 The Electric Field: Capacitive Sensors and Actuators -- 5.4 Magnetic Fields: Sensors and Actuators -- 5.5 Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Sensors and Actuators -- 5.6 Magnetoresistance and Magnetoresistive Sensors 5.7 Magnetostrictive Sensors and Actuators --5.8 Magnetometers 5.9 Magnetic Actuators --5.10 Voltage and Current Sensors --5.11 Problems 6 Mechanical Sensors and Actuators -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Some Definitions and Units --6.3 Force Sensors --6.4 Accelerometers --6.5 Pressure Sensors --6.6 Velocity Sensing --6.7 Inertial Sensors: Gyroscopes 6.8 Problems --7 Acoustic Sensors and Actuators --7.1 Introduction 7.2 Units and Definitions --7.3 Elastic Waves and Their Properties 7.4 Microphones --7.5 The Piezoelectric Effect --7.6 Acoustic Actuators 7.7 Ultrasonic Sensors and Actuators: Transducers --7.8 Piezoelectric Actuators --7.9 Piezoelectric Resonators and SAW Devices --7.10 Problems 8 Chemical Sensor and Actuators --8.1 Introduction --8.2 Chemical Units 8.3 Electrochemical Sensors --8.4 Potentiometric Sensors --8.5 Thermochemical Sensors --8.6 Optical Chemical Sensors --8.7 Mass Sensors 8.8 Humidity and Moisture Sensors --8.9 Chemical Actuation --8.10 Problems --9 Radiation Sensors and Actuators --9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Units of Radiation --9.3 Radiation Sensors -- 9.4 Microwave Radiation -- 9.5 Antennas as Sensors and Actuators --9.6 Problems --10 MEMS and Smart Sensors --10.1 Introduction --10.2 Production of MEMS -- 10.3 MEMS Sensors and Actuators --10.4 Smart Sensors and Actuators --10.5 Sensor Networks --10.6 Problems --11 Interfacing Methods and Circuits --11.1 Introduction --11.2 Amplifiers --11.3 Power Amplifiers --11.4 Digital Circuits 11.5 A/D and D/A Converters --11.6 Bridge Circuits -- 11.7 Data Transmission --11.8 Excitation Methods and Circuits --11.9 Noise and Interference -- 11.10 Problems -- 12 Interfacing to Microprocessors --12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Microprocessor as a General Purpose Controller 12.3 General Requirements for Interfacing Sensors and Actuators -- 12.4 Errors --12.5 Problems…”

Hearing aids by Dillon, Harvey