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  2. Two capacitor paradox - Wikipedia

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    The two capacitor paradox or capacitor paradox is a paradox, or counterintuitive thought experiment, in electric circuit theory. [1] [2] The thought experiment is usually described as follows: Circuit of the paradox, showing initial voltages before the switch is closed. Two identical capacitors are connected in parallel with an open switch ...

  3. RC time constant - Wikipedia

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    It is the time required to charge the capacitor, through the resistor, from an initial charge voltage of zero to approximately 63.2% of the value of an applied DC voltage, or to discharge the capacitor through the same resistor to approximately 36.8% of its initial charge voltage.

  4. Open-circuit time constant method - Wikipedia

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    Select capacitor C 2, replace it by a test voltage V X, and replace C 1 by an open circuit. Then the resistance seen by the test voltage is found using the circuit in the middle panel of Figure 1 and is simply V X / I X = R 1 + R 2. Form the product C 2 ( R 1 + R 2). Select capacitor C 1, replace it by a test voltage V X, and replace C 2 by an open

  5. Current source - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, a current source provides a constant current, as long as the impedance of the load is sufficiently lower than the current source's parallel impedance (which is preferably very high and ideally infinite). In the case of transistor current sources, impedances of a few megohms (at low frequencies) are typical. Because power is current ...

  6. Sample and hold - Wikipedia

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    A typical sample and hold circuit stores electric charge in a capacitor and contains at least one switching device such as a FET (field effect transistor) switch and normally one operational amplifier. [2] To sample the input signal, the switch connects the capacitor to the output of a buffer amplifier. The buffer amplifier charges or ...

  7. Current mirror - Wikipedia

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    A current mirror is a circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device of a circuit, keeping the output current constant regardless of loading. The current being "copied" can be, and sometimes is, a varying signal current. Conceptually, an ideal current mirror is simply an ideal ...

  8. RC circuit - Wikipedia

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    A resistor–capacitor circuit (RC circuit), or RC filter or RC network, is an electric circuit composed of resistors and capacitors. It may be driven by a voltage or current source and these will produce different responses. A first order RC circuit is composed of one resistor and one capacitor and is the simplest type of RC circuit.

  9. Capacitance multiplier - Wikipedia

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    Here, the capacitance of capacitor C1 is multiplied by the ratio of resistances: C = C1 * R1 / R2 at the Vi node. [1] More advanced capacitance multiplier. The synthesized capacitance also brings a series resistance approximately equal to R2, and a leakage current appears across the capacitance because of the input offsets of OP.