Question

Piezo-electricity is ______________

(a) sound electricity

(b) pressure electricity

(c) temperature electricity

(d) photo electricity

I have been asked this question by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

I want to ask this question from Pressure Transducers topic in chapter Physiological Transducers of Biomedical Instrumentation

Answer 1

The correct choice is (b) pressure electricity

To elaborate: Piezo-electricity is pressure electricity. The piezo electric effect is a property of natural crystalline substance to develop electric potential along a crystallographic axis in response to the movement of charge as a result of mechanical deformation.