Thursday, 15 January 2009

Revising the basics

Back to basics, god it's been a long time, but it's good to throw out a few basics just to refresh. How basic should I go? Lets go mad, back to the super easy basics. Assuming Passive conventions, here's some basic laws.

Ohm's Law: v = Ri
Voltage Source: v = Vs
Current Source: i = Is
Capacitor: i = C (dv/dt)
Inductor: v = L (di/dt)
Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL): Sum of all currents on a node, with appropriate sign is zero.
Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL): Sum of all voltages around a loop, with appropriate sign is zero.
Power dissipated when vi > 0
Power genereated when vi < 0
Power: P = vi
Energy stored in Capacitor: E = 1/2(Cv^2)
Energy stored in Inductor: E = 1/2(Li^2)

Where, v = voltage, R = resistance, i = current, C = capacitance, L = inductance, P = power and E = energy.

That's just a small refresher. I could go into transfer functions and testing for linearity and some possible equations, but that's way too complicated to show here without diagrams.

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