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Amplifiers and Operational Amplifiers
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What is comparing against a reference?Show answer
To make a useful sensing circuit, one input is held at a fixed reference voltage (often set by a potential divider or a variable resistor), and the other is fed by a sensor divider whose voltage changes with light, temperature or another quantity:
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