Seeing tutorials about amplifiers

AI Thread Summary
The discussion focuses on finding basic tutorials for amplifiers, specifically inverting, non-inverting, and differential amplifiers. Participants suggest searching online for tutorials, highlighting the importance of understanding general rules for operational amplifiers (op-amps), such as high input impedance and low output impedance. Key concepts discussed include the necessity of feedback in op-amp circuits to stabilize them and ensure proper function, as well as the relationship between the input voltages. Questions arise about the conditions under which V+ equals V-, emphasizing the need for feedback in various configurations. Overall, the conversation underscores the importance of foundational knowledge in amplifier design and operation.
Pellefant
Messages
36
Reaction score
0
Seeking basic tutorials about amplifiers!

Hi i am looking after some good tutorial for amplifiers, and with amplifiers i mean Inverting amplifier, noe-inverting amplifier and diffrential amplifier. I should point out that i am a new about amplifiers atm.

Kindly Pellefant ...
 
Last edited:
Engineering news on Phys.org
does v+ = v- under all conditions or just when the output is fedback into the + or - terminal??
 
TheAnalogKid83 said:
does v+ = v- under all conditions or just when the output is fedback into the + or - terminal??

An op-amp will drive its inputs to the same voltage when it is physically possible. The amplifier cannot produce higher voltages than those of its supplies. Also, it cannot it source more power than it is designed to source, or more than the power supplies can deliver.

If you wire up an op-amp without any feedback, it will generally just rail one way or another. An op-amp circuit without any feedback would be entirely pointless.

- Warren
 
chroot said:
An op-amp will drive its inputs to the same voltage when it is physically possible. The amplifier cannot produce higher voltages than those of its supplies. Also, it cannot it source more power than it is designed to source, or more than the power supplies can deliver.

If you wire up an op-amp without any feedback, it will generally just rail one way or another. An op-amp circuit without any feedback would be entirely pointless.

- Warren

is this because it ideally has infinite gain and its unstable with such high gain, so the feedback stabilizes it? I haven't studied opamps in a couple years, but what about a differential operation of just subtracting v- from v+, where neither one is at ground level, does this still require feedback? I think almost all of the examples I've worked on and have read in my textbook have always had one terminal grounded and it has given me a very limited idea of how to use and design circuits using opamps.
 
  • #10
TheAnalogKid83 said:
is this because it ideally has infinite gain and its unstable with such high gain, so the feedback stabilizes it? I haven't studied opamps in a couple years, but what about a differential operation of just subtracting v- from v+, where neither one is at ground level, does this still require feedback? I think almost all of the examples I've worked on and have read in my textbook have always had one terminal grounded and it has given me a very limited idea of how to use and design circuits using opamps.

Yep, difference amps still require feedback. See, e.g. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electronic/opampvar6.html#c1

- Warren
 
Back
Top