What is Initial velocity: Definition and 458 Discussions

In electronics, biasing is the setting of initial operating conditions (current and voltage) of an active device in an amplifier. Many electronic devices, such as diodes, transistors and vacuum tubes, whose function is processing time-varying (AC) signals, also require a steady (DC) current or voltage at their terminals to operate correctly. This current or voltage is a bias. The AC signal applied to them is superpositioned on this DC bias current or voltage.
The operating point of a device, also known as bias point, quiescent point, or Q-point, is the DC voltage or current at a specified terminal of an active device (a transistor or vacuum tube) with no input signal applied. A bias circuit is a portion of the device's circuit which supplies this steady current or voltage.

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  1. J

    Two boxes with same initial velocity on a 2d track but one is at top of a hill

    I'm trying to understand a problem someone gave me recently. there is a frictionless track that initially starts flat then there is an incline of 20 degrees then it levels out again at the bottom of the incline. you have two masses, 1 is .4 kg and is located at the top of the hill and has an...
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  3. P

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  5. D

    Projectile Motion comparing height and initial velocity

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  6. R

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  7. C

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  8. M

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  9. S

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  10. K

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  11. R

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  12. T

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  14. V

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  15. C

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  16. D

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  17. A

    Initial Velocity of a Projectile

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  18. V

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  19. rcgldr

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  21. D

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  22. K

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  23. A

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  24. V

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  25. A

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  30. M

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  32. W

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  33. J

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  34. J

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  35. X

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  36. L

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  38. K

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  39. J

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  40. F

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  41. M

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  42. Femme_physics

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  43. A

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  44. C

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  45. A

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  46. P

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  47. U

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  48. S

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  49. P

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  50. M

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