Analyzing Ideal Op-Amp Circuits: From Voltage Dividers to Low Pass Filters

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The discussion revolves around completing an assignment on ideal op-amp circuits, focusing on voltage dividers and low-pass filters. Participants emphasize the importance of understanding the properties of ideal op-amps, such as infinite gain and zero input current, to solve the problems effectively. The first problem is analyzed, revealing that the voltage at the negative terminal equals the input voltage, leading to a derived voltage gain of 2. The input impedance is determined to be equal to R, as the op-amp inputs draw no current. The last problem is noted as complex, with initial findings suggesting it behaves like a low-pass filter, pending further analysis for confirmation.
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Okay folks, this assign. is due tomorrow and I wasn't able to work on it due to tests and I really need to complete this assignment.
So please if anyone knows any of the problems in the posted pdf file, please let me know as to how to go about solving it, 'cause that would save me a lot of time and will give me some sleep.

Thanks a lot...!
 

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IS anyone going to even try on the problems posted?

Or is everyone "scared" of giving it a try?
 
Sorry about missing this thread and the rediculous non-answers (now deleted), logicalman.

I'm bumping this thread over to homework help.
 
I don't know if this is too late to be helpful, if so, I apologise. But really, you should be posting your own ideas before we can help you, that's our policy.

Anyway, that's a lot of problems. I only tried the first (because it looked simple, and it was), and the last (because it looked interesting and hard, and it was both).

If all the opamps are assumed to be ideal (infinite gain, zero output impedance and infinite input impedance) the problems become doable.

For question 1, you know that the voltage applied to the + terminal is Vin. From this you should infer that the voltage experienced at the - terminal is also Vin because the gain is infinite and only a zero volt difference at the input can produce a finite Vout. Look at the bottom half of the circuit, does it look like a voltage divider with 2Rs in series with a supply of Vout ? In fact it can be treated as such because the current drawn by the inputs of the op-amp are zero. The voltage in the middle of the symmetric voltage divider is Vin.

Hence we have :

V_{in} = \frac{R}{R + R}V_{out}

giving V_{in} = \frac{1}{2}V_{out}

and hence A_V = 2

For the input impedance we need to find the ratio of Vin to Iin, where Iin is the input current. Since the inputs draw zero current,

V_{out} - V_{in} = I_{in}.R

Since V_{out} = 2V_{in}

\frac{V_{in}}{I_{in}} = R

giving the input impedance as R.

The last problem is challenging, but go back to first principles. I worked with the capacitance as a complex reactance, giving me a neat expression for the gain at first (note that R1 does not affect the gain), but it quickly became unwieldy when I took the magnitude. To really find out the behaviour when \omega varies, I would need to differentiate it, but I haven't done it yet. Nevertheless just "eyeballing" it, it's a low pass filter, but it could be called a bandpass because I think the maximum gain occurs at a frequency higher than zero, and tapers off at lower and higher frequencies. But take note this is a tentative conclusion, I'll have to differentiate the expression to be sure.
 
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