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Transfer Function, Impulse Response and Steady State Analysis

Please refer to the attached file. 1. What is the response function of the circuit in the s-domain? 2. What are the poles? Is than an impulse response stable circuit? 3. What are the poles? Is than an impulse response stable circuit? 4. What is the natural response of the circuit? 5. Is the circuit impulse stable? 6. Is

Greater than 9 detector, Alarm circuit, multiplier circuit

Greater than 9 detector 1) Design a circuit whose output will be high if the 4-bit data input is a value greater than 9. It only needs to be a simple circuit using basic gates. Also need truth table. 2) Alarm circuit design an alarm circuit to be used in a process control system. Temp (T), Presure (P), Flow (F), and Level (L)

Problem requiring use of Kirchoff's Rules

Please help with the following problem. Provide step by step calculations to go along with the solution. Use Kirchhoff's rules to find the current in each of the four resistors in the circuit shown below (see the attachment). Also, calculate the voltage drop across each of the four resistors. See attached file for a diag

Different Points of a Circuit

Please help answer the following problems. In the circuit shown in the attached picture E=10V, r=1ohm, R1=2khom, and R2=R3=R4=3kohm. 1. What is the current at point a of the circuit? 2. What is the potential difference between points a and b? 3. What is the potential difference between points b and d? 4. What is

RC Circuit: Potentials of different points

The figure (see attachment) employs a convention often used in circuit diagrams. The battery (or other power supply) is not shown explicitly. It is understood that the point at the top, labeled "18.0 V," is connected to the positive terminal of a 18.0 V battery having negligible internal resistance, and that the "ground" symbol

RC Circuit - Capacitor Discharge Time, Time Constant, etc.

(Please see the attachment for detailed problem) 1) In a circuit shown below it took capacitor 0.138 seconds to discharge from its maximum charge Qmax to half of that maximum charge once the battery was removed. a) How much time would it take that capacitor to discharge from its maximum charge to 1/16th of that maximu

Drug Addiction and Reward Circuits in the Brain

Presents the principles of drug action, and biological mechanisms involved in addiction to commonly abused psychoactive drugs. 1. Discuss the mechanisms of psychoactive drug action. 2. Identify the health hazards of commonly abused psychoactive drugs. 3. Explain the weight gain following smoking cessation.

series RLC circuit...

I am having trouble with #27, I need a mapped out way to get the answers to match the back of the book. Note: you need to use the RLC circuit in # 14 (the one in the right column) to obtain the answers in#27 27. Consider the series RLC circuit of problem 14. The voltage amplitude of the source is 150 V. (a) At what angu

Electrical/Current Flow Calculations

A typical 120-volt household circuit delivers 350 watts of power to an appliance, and another 10 watts of power are consumed by the circuit. There is no ground fault. a. How much current is carried by the hot wire? b. How much current is carried by the neutral? c. How much current is carried by the grounding conductor? d.

Circuit analysis: Steady State Values, Power and Energy

The following circuit is left operating for a long time, until it reaches a DC steady state. (see diagram in the attached file) a) Determine the DC steady state values for i1, i2, and v3. b) Determine how much power the 24 V voltage source is supplying. c) Calculate how much energy is stored in the 4 micro farad capacitor,

transfer function and unit setp response

(See attached file for full problem description) For the following RC circuit, A.) Using the knowledge that the Laplace transform of dX/dt is sX(s) and: dVout / dt = 1/RC (Vin - Vout) derive the Laplace transform of the above system, Vout(s)/Vin(s). B.) Using the knowledge that the Laplace transform for C is 1/(sC) and


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Conductivity of Earth: Two hemispherical electrodes in earth.

Please see the attached file. 1. Two solid hemispherical conducting electrodes each of radius a are pressed into the earth, curved surfaces down, such that the flat surfaces are flush with the flat surface of the earth. Assume that the electrode separation (center to center) is d where d>>a. We wish to measure the electric

Relationships of current and voltage in parallel networks

Please help with 7.12, 7.14, 7.15 and 7.16. See attached file for full problem descriptions. 7.12) In this exercise we will express mathematically the relationships of current and voltage in parallel networks. 7.14) (A) Refer to the definitions for series and parallel connections of elements given in section 4, The defini

Electrical Circuits with Bulbs

See attached file for full problem description. 1. In the circuit shown, the battery supplies 0.50 A of current. The current through bulb A is 0.15 A. Find the current through bulbs B and C. 2. In this circuit, the current through bulb A is 0.20 A, while that through bulb D is 0.35 A. All bulbs are identical. (A) For the s

Circuit drawings

1. Draw a circuit involving bulbs and a battery as follows: Bulb A and bulb B are in series. The A/B combination is in parallel with bulb C. The battery is in parallel with bulb C. Rank the bulbs in terms of brightness, from brightest to least bright. 2. Draw a circuit with bulbs and a battery as follows: Bulb A and bulb B a

Network Flow Problem

(See attached file for full problem description) --- - Determine the general flow pattern in the street network shown in the diagram. ---

Microelectric Circuits 8

Please check my work and if incorrect give me the correct answer Please refer to the problem stated in the attached file. (For the full-wave rectifier circuit shown below, the supply voltage is 18-V rms sinusoidal, Vdo is approximately 0.7V and R=120. What is the value for PIV?) This is my solution: Piv=2Vs-Vd 2*18sq

Designing a logic circuit

Require a logic circuit designing for the attached solution, as much help as possible please as i am lost. The problem does not specify, what valves are a hazardous system, it is a closed system that serves no purpose as far as i can see. I have not studied any thermofluid systems as yet, it seems too much of a jump in kno

Magnetic Balance: Force on a current carrying conductor

The circuit shown below is used to make a magnetic balance to weigh objects. The mass m to be measured is hung from the center of the bar that is in a uniform magnetic field of 1.50 T, directed towards the plane of the figure. The horizontal bar is 60 cm long. It is connected to the battery by thin vertical wires that can suppor

Circuits with capacitors

There is an attachment of what the problem is. Consider the circuit shown in Figure 21-45, where R1 = 17 and R2 = 6.0 (see diagram in attachment) The capacitor is 45 microFarads and the battery is 9.0V a) Find the current flowing through the battery immediately after the switch is closed. b) Find the current in the batt

Network flow

Hi Consider any graph G with edge capacities, a source s, and a sink t. Suppose the maximum flow from s to t is greater than 0, so there is a path from s to t. Then there always exists an edge so that increasing the capacity on the edge increases the maximum flow from s to t. Is Answer True or False Thanks


1. An inductor and capacitor are used to make a resonant circuit.The inductor has a winding resistance that is relatively small compared with its reactance. Explain why a series connection and a parallel connection of the inductor and capacitor produce slightly different resonant frequencies in some detail. 2. A 50nF capacito

Integrated Circuits, Microprocessors, and Chip Sets

Please address: 1. The advantage of computer simulations of integrated circuits and how simulation techniques are an example of scientific methods 2. How the computer design tools facilitate the coordination of design and manufacturing.