Sources Definition and 517 Threads

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7053/96217079.jpg given this circuit find the current on R1,R2 and R3. My attemptFirst of, I want to know-- did I build the equations correctly? http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9804/mar1u.jpg [PLAIN]http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/213/mar2m.jpg

I'm trying to google for some but results often lead me to forum questions, theory articles, etc. Basically I'm looking for circuits questions with parallel voltage sources answers, where I am supposed to do the work to find out the solution for the current.

I've been contemplating an experiment on a 1-dimensional system which would require a single light source to be split into two separate sources which are exactly out of phase with each other. The idea is to focus the beams near each other (but not overlapping) along the 1D object. Any phonons...

Hello PF members I am a very new member to your forum and very new to time-frequency transformation. Over the summer I will be doing some research on vibration signals and for now I want to start understanding some basic things upon the time and frequency domain and transformation...

Organisms radiation EM energy. I am aware of the brain and nervous system as a source (because of electrical currents, etc) and that we have a lot of IR radiation. Is the majority of the energy due to blackbody radiation, a by-product of chemical reactions, or something else?

The circuit is in the attachment, plus the values that I've managed to find out so far. Im having problem with figuring out the voltage at t=infinity. So far i know that when t->infinity that inductors become short circuit. It says to apply current division and then Ohm's Law as a hint, and...

I did an experiment in class to determine the speed of sound. I used the speed of sound in air equation with the room temp at 28°C which was calculated at 348.6m/s. However when doing the experiment I got 329m/s. I just want to know some source of error that may have caused this? I have...

On wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_source Under the heading, "Current and voltage source comparison" It says that most sources of electrical energy are best modeled as voltage sources, that is supplying constant voltage. But why do most sources provide constant voltage...

what are fatigue cracks? what are the major sources of fatigue withing the fuselage? how can fatigue cracks be detected during inspection? how can the risk of fatigue cracks in the fuselage be reduced? why are they dangerous? what is their origin? I've tried to find answers for these...

Hi! Last Week we did a Physics lab on Speed of Sound. Two wooden sticks were banged against each other at a distance of 100 m from the wall(Then we went to 200 m, 300m and finally 400m) and the echo was heard and time was measured using a stopwatch. It was a rainy day. Can anybody suggest me...

Hi PF Are there an interaction between an electromagnetic wave and a charge source? For example, does an electromagnetic wave get attracted by a charge source, the same way the Earth attracts the moon? Or is something else going on?

I am looking for some data that identifies the most significant source of decay heat for the first few days from a reactor trip. Something similar for 1month after or more would be useful. Thanks Dave

I feel this is a very simple question, but I can't seem to wrap my head around it. For example, if you have two 1.5 volt batteries in series and a load of 100 ohms then the total voltage is 3 volts and the current is 30mA because I=V/R. If you have two 1.5 volt batteries in parallel then the...

Homework Statement Three sources are emitting sound at 0.8W, one at 200 Hz, second one at 201 Hz and third one at 202 Hz. The sound travels in a shape of a half sphere. Find the intensity at 3m distance from the source (the sources are said to be very close to each other so I guess they can be...

Homework Statement I am doing some review and I though that I had this down pat, but I am getting confused a little. I am looking at the Wikipedia on Mesh Analysis. I do not understand the last equation of each section. How are they getting the signs of the currents? In the top image...

I understand that no such discoveries have been made. But there must be some astrophysics models which predict the abundance of neutrino sources. If there are such models, what are the odds that IceCube spot a neutrino source, after several years of operation?

Homework Statement Homework Equations Is 1 an ideal voltage source? Is 2 and ideal current source? i was solving a noninverting amplifier circuit and i was asked to find out output impedence. and in the first circuit output voltage was independent of the load resistence => output...

Homework Statement Find V1, V2 and V3. Homework Equations Nodal Analysis Supernode Equation Capacitance = 1/R KCL & KVL The Attempt at a Solution KCL @ node 0: Ic = v2(-G1) +v3(-G3) Node 1: Ic + I1 +v3(G2+G3) +V2(-G3) = 0 (subbing in Ic) v2(G1+G3) + v3(g-3) = I1....Equation (1) Node 2...

Dear All As I have understood, there will be only cooling chunks of matter like stray planets, neutron stars, brown dwarves and all other kind of debris left of our Universe in 10^20 years, which continue drifting apart as the Universe expands on (let us assume that it does). They will...

Why do we replace current sources with open circuits when using the Superposition Theorem while we replace batteries with wire?

Homework Statement I must determine whether the following vector fields have sources or vortices. 1)\vec A = (\vec x )\frac{\vec a \times \vec x}{r^3} where \vec a is constant and r=||\vec x||. 2)\vec B (\vec x )= \frac{\vec a}{r+ \beta} where \vec a and r are the same as part 1) and \beta >0...

Homework Statement Find the current through the resistor R1. The Attempt at a Solution First I short circuited the voltage source and determined I1. I1=(9A)(10-olms/18-olms)=5 A down Next, I short circuited the current source and determined the current going through R1 via olms...

Hello! I have a hard time getting to know what this exponential W(J) really is about. What is it even called? Zee writes: Z(J) = Z(J=0) * e^(i W(J)), and I suppose that this is the term that should be evaluated by summing over all possible pair of sources? What is W(J) for a system with 2...

For diffraction you can assume slits in screens contain sources for the diffracted waves. But for a slit of finite width, how far apart are the sources? If the sources are continuously placed in the gap, then that means there are an infinite number of sources. An infinite number of sources...

The Specific Absorption Rate (the rate at which energy is absorbed by a unit mass) given in W/kg is calculated by the following equation SAR = (sigma * Erms^2) / p Where sigma is the conductivity of the material (given in S/m), Erms is the RMS electric field (V/m) at the location and p is...

Guys, I was wondering if any of you has encountered a problem with multiple energy sources and the analytical solution for that problem. Is there any way to formulate this problem "without" superposition? Thanks, Frank

The Power density (Pd in W/m^2) at a distance r (in meters) for a transmitting antenna with gain Gt is given by: Pd = ( Pt * Gt) / 4 * Pi * r^2 where Pt (in Watts) is the power transmitted from the antenna. All these variables are scalar values so if there were multiple antennas and...

Homework Statement Two light sources half a millimetre apart with a wavelength of 550nm shine on a wall exactly 50cm away. What is the distance between the centre point on the wall and the 10th bright spot out? Homework Equations x=nLv/d The Attempt at a Solution...

I'm looking for information regarding the "Transfer Characteristics of Real and Ideal Diodes". I've tried google and the section on this site for learning material, but I've failed to find a site that displays both transfer characteristics and explains them. I was hoping that someone would have...

Suppose that we have a wire that connects the two poles of a DC battery. The current produced indicates the presence of some Electric Field within the wire, having a constant magnitude and a direction that follows its path. Now the question is : What is the source of that Electric Field...

We have a 532 nm laser that we use with our Raman tool. The only power indicator on the control is in the form of a percentage. I know that at 100%, the laser has a power of 25 mW. Does this scale linearly with power percentage? In other words, does 50% power translate to 12.5 mW?

In reality what do you expect to be the first detection with GW detectors? Closest pulsars?

Is the following correct? In Newton's theory, gravity is a force (described in terms of a scalar potential field and its gradient), and the source of gravity is mass. In Einstein's theory, gravity is curvature of spacetime (described by the Riemann curvature tensor), R_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta}...

Hello, I was wondering how to change the values of a dependent source in PSpice 9.2. For example, say I have a dependent current source that depends on the current flowing through some resistor and say that the current flowing through this dependent source is 2I. How do I input that into...

we are planning to install one backup generator to secure two differenr grids 3 phase each. how shall be the connection that gurantee if any source of the two grids is off, the generator will automatically start up and take the load??

Does anyone know of a good source for small electron guns? Just a simple one. I was using a TV CRT gun but the filaments don't last when exposed to atmosphere. I obviously operate under vacuum but I have no way to store my device in a vacuum for a long period.

There appears to be three sources of red-shift: or are there only two, and two of the following are equivalent? (1) Classical Doppler shift (2) Relativistic Doppler shift (3) Red-shifting from the expansion of space Otherwise put, which ones are calculated for retreating galaxy clusters and...

hello, in my course I read about ideal sources - an ideal voltage source holds a constant voltage , no matter the currect it's giving so can I conclude that those types of sources has an infinite power in itself ? (power = voltage x current) maybay a stupid question... thank you

Hi people! Strange request but not having much luck in anything specific to what I'm doing, either that or I'm not sure what i should be searching for... I'm making a fantasy world for a book and wanting to create a single planet that is still distinguishable as having been 2 separate...

Homework Statement Homework Equations v = IR The Attempt at a Solution Okay, so up until this point, I was doing okay... but now I'm stuck. I do not understand how I'm supposed to work with this because until now I have not had a dependent source. Am I supposed to start by doing a KCL on...

Hi, I understand that you cannot apply KVL to voltage sources connected in parallel, unless both voltage sources are the same, as this violates KVL. However, I want to know why? Just a simple 2-3 line explanation will suffice. Regards

When you are using Kirchhoff's voltage law and you come across a current source, what should the sign of the voltage be?

Homework Statement |----------| |+ |+ CS VS |- |- |----------| The current source is pointed downwards and is 2A while the VS is 12V They are asking for the power supplied by each source. Homework Equations V=ir KCL KVL P=Vi,i^2R,V^2/RThe Attempt at a Solution...

Homework Statement See figure. Homework Equations N/A. The Attempt at a Solution Okay first off I have a little confusion about the diagram in figure 3. Is Vnl simply the voltage across the oscilloscope in this figure? Is the circuit I've drawn in pink the same as figure 3...

I'm trying to evaluate the energy shift in a scalar field described by the Klein-Gordon equation caused by adding two time-independent point sources. In Zee's Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, he shows the derivation for a (3+1)-dimensional universe, and I'm trying to do the same for an...

Surge Protector -- strange reaction to light sources? We have 2 power strips in our home in which the indicator lights both react to a light source in the following manner: during the day (in the presence of sunlight) the indicator lights shine red with a small flicker every now and then. In...

Hi Everybody! I have been wondering about wave generation from point sources, and interference. I have noticed that if several point sources are sited in a line much more than one wavelength long, a very directional interference pattern develops. The closer the sources and the longer the line...

The question might be simple for you guys but the problem is that it is not for ME ! I have a circuit and I have to determine the node voltages by Nodal Analysis method. And the one which I learned was in cases when we had a current source, I could simply write the equations using KCL...

So, this seemed most appropriate for this forum, as it's essentially a question about pumps, pressures, and fluid mechanics. The set up I have that this question pertains to; There are two pumps that have lines running to a T-joint with a small chamber to allow for mixing before exiting...

I'm curious if the dual-slit experiment has been performed using multiple light sources. For example, if two photon emitters were used at various distances apart from each other, I wonder if that would affect the interference patterns. I'm wondering about this because the distance between...