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Resonance edit

Simple resonant circuit, description.

Amplification, Q, form factors edit

Filters edit

Ideal Filters edit

(Discussion of how ideal filters provide the signal until the break frequency/cies and then provide total attenuation. That is they look like a   for low pass filter, where u(w) is the unit step function or Heaviside function. That is they have infinite drop off at the cutoff frequency. How this is not possible. Pretty diagrams of all the filters Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Band Stop.)

 
Figure 1:The transfer function of an Ideal Low Pass Filter.
 
Figure 2:The transfer function of an Ideal High Pass Filter.
 
Figure 3:The transfer function of an Ideal Band Pass Filter.
 
Figure 4:The transfer function of an Ideal Band Stop Filter.


This section introduces first order butterworth low pass and high pass filters. An understanding of Laplace Transforms or at least Laplace Transforms of capacitors, inductors and resistors.

Low Pass edit

 
Figure 1: A basic RC circuit.

Transforming the Resistor and Capacitor to the Laplace domain we get:

R and  .

Expressing   using terms of  .

 
 

The transfer function is

 

So

 

For the Frequency Domain we put  

 

The magnitude is

 

and the angle is

 

As   increases   decreases so this circuit must represent low pass filter.

Using the -3 dB definition of band width.  

 

Therefore

 
 

Which gives the general form of a low pass butterworth filter as:

 

, where k is the order of the filter and   is the cut-off frequency.

High Pass edit

(Image of a first order RL high pass filter)

If all the component of the circuit are transformed into the Laplace Domain. The resistor becomes   and the inductor becomes  . Using voltage divider rule   below is reached.

 

If   is transformed into the frequency domain by putting  .

 

Which has a magnitude of

 

and an angle of

 
(cut-off frequency is w (R/L)^0.5)