Sketching output waveforms while considering slew rate

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Homework Statement
Sketch the output voltage when input voltage applied to non inverting amplifier with gain 10 for a square wave input signal with peak to peak voltage ##2 V##, ##50 %## duty cycle and frequency ##1## kHz. Supply Voltage is +12 V and -12V, the op amp has slew rate 0.5 V/ microsecond and the op amp is nulled initially.
Relevant Equations
Time Period = 1 / Frequency

Duty Cycle = (Pulse Width *100)/ Time Period
1. Using the frequency equation I know the time period is 1 millisecond.

2. The duty cycle (50%) equation tells me that the pulse width and the amplitude is 1 V.

3. Thus the input waveform looks like this : (?)

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4. As the slew rate is 0.5 volts per microsecond, the output voltage would take 4 microseconds to go from -1 V to + 1V (?)

5. Thus the output waveform for one pulse should look like :

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(I converted milliseconds to microseconds)

Is this correct?
 
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JC2000 said:
5. Thus the output waveform for one pulse should look like :
You have not considered the gain.
 
cnh1995 said:
You have not considered the gain.
Oof! Careless of me. Other than that bit is the rest fine?
 
JC2000 said:
Oof! Careless of me. Other than that bit is the rest fine?
The horizontal axis is not to scale, even ignoring the voltage gain issue. The rise/fall times are on the order of a few us, while the period of the square wave input is on the order of a ms. Do you have any ideas for how to represent that on a plot? How would you observe this on a digital oscilloscope, for example?
 
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