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<strong>Thermistors</strong> 9<br />

T ° K<br />

340<br />

320<br />

300<br />

280<br />

260<br />

Truth model <strong>for</strong> <strong>Temperature</strong> vs Voltage<br />

0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8<br />

Normalized<br />

voltage<br />

Figure 6<br />

As the figure shows, the temperature voltage relationship is approximately linear with a possibly cubic nonlinearity. Fitting 500<br />

samples of this curve to a cubic polynomial by the least square method results in this equation<br />

T 227.929 251.624 v 358.996 v 2 267.536 v 3<br />

Fig.7 shows the error plot <strong>for</strong> equation (19) combined with Fig.4, the error plot <strong>for</strong> the simplified equation<br />

(19)

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