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MyNameGoesHere
This is what I have and I was wondering where C2 might go if I make apply the hybrid pi model on this circuit. I know that all the DC Voltages should be shorted if I were to make use of an equivalent circuit, so that in the hybrid pi model R1 should be in the input and R3 in the output. But what about C2? It was already grounded from the beginning. Does it go in the ground horizontally? If so, on the input or output?
I would normally ignore the capacitive reactances if the frequency was high enough that they would all go to zero. But I was told to do a frequency response and find -3 dB loss points, and they exist in both ends, in the low region and the high region. That means this circuit acts as a band pass filter which is a composite circuit of a low pass filter of RC such that I have R in series and C in parallel to the output and high pass filter of CR, C in series and R in parallel. Well, I can see that C1 and C3 are in series with the input and output. If C2 goes to the ground, I have no way of explaining decrease in the output in the high frequency range except arguing that the circuit is not perfect that it has capacitors and inductors everywhere.
This is as far as I was taught in my undergrad electronics physics class. I'm not an engineering student, so don't know a whole lot about circuits. It would be grateful if someone could give a hint. Thanks.