Op Amps Pdf
Eunice Beady
So much of our daily lives runs on electricity, yet most of us don't know the difference between a 60-watt and 75-watt light bulb, or how voltage from the wall socket supplies enough juice to run both a small desk lamp and a powerful microwave.
Voltage is a measurement of the electric potential or "pressure" at which electricity flows through a system. Voltage is also described as the speed of individual electrons as they move through a circuit and is measured in units called volts.
In the United States, power from the electrical grid is delivered to homes at two different voltages or "pressures": 120 volts and 240 volts. That's because different home appliances operate at different voltages. Large, energy-hungry appliances like air conditioning units, electric ranges and clothes dryers operate at 240 volts, while most other devices like light bulbs, TVs, computers and cell phone chargers only need 120 volts.
Amperage is another way to measure the amount of electricity running through a circuit. Amperage is the "rate" that current is flowing through the circuit or the number of electrons moving through the wire. Amperage is listed in units called amps (or amperes). The unit is named after French physicist Andr-Marie Ampre, one of the fathers of electromagnetism.
You might come across amps if you look inside your home's service panel (also called the breaker box). You'll see different circuit breakers listed as 15 amps, 20 amps and 30 amps. The larger the amperage, the more electricity can flow through the circuit. Again, large appliances like air conditioners, washers and dryers will be connected to 30-amp circuits, while most outlets in a home will be powered by 20-amp or 15-amp circuits.
Of all these different units of electricity, wattage is probably the most familiar. For years, you've been buying 40-watt light bulbs and 60-watt light bulbs with the general understanding that a 60-watt bulb is going to be brighter than a 40-watt bulb. But why?
To calculate wattage, you simply multiply voltage (pressure/speed) by amperage (volume), expressed as V x A = W. The faster each electron moves through the circuit, and the greater the volume that the circuit can hold, the higher the wattage. Wattage is measured in units called watts and named after James Watt, the Scottish engineer who popularized the steam engine.
Ah, you thought we were done. So far, we've talked about different ways to measure the amount of electricity flowing through a circuit, and how much wattage is needed to run different electrical devices connected to that circuit.
But circuits are made up of wires and wires are not perfect conductors. Most home electrical wiring is made of copper or aluminum, and both of those materials have a certain amount of natural resistance or friction, which slows down the flow of electricity. When electricity passes through electrical devices and appliances, they also apply their own resistance.
A neat analogy to help understand these terms is a system of plumbing pipes. The voltage is equivalent to the water pressure, the current (amperage) is equivalent to the flow rate, and the resistance is like the pipe size.
There is a basic equation in electrical engineering that states how the three terms relate. It says that the current is equal to the voltage divided by the resistance or I = V/R. This is known as Ohm's law (named after our friend Georg Simon Ohm).
What happens if you increase the pressure in the tank? You probably can guess that this makes more water come out of the hose. The same is true of an electrical system: Increasing the voltage will make more current flow.
Let's say you increase the diameter of the hose and all of the fittings to the tank. You probably guessed that this also makes more water come out of the hose. This is like decreasing the resistance in an electrical system, which increases the current flow.
The water analogy still applies. Take a hose and point it at a waterwheel like the ones that were used to turn grinding stones in watermills. You can increase the power generated by the waterwheel in two ways. If you increase the pressure of the water coming out of the hose, it hits the waterwheel with a lot more force and the wheel turns faster, generating more power. If you increase the flow rate, the waterwheel turns faster because of the weight of the extra water hitting it.
In an electrical system, increasing either the current or the voltage will result in higher power. Let's say you have a system with a 6-volt light bulb hooked up to a 6-volt battery. The power output of the light bulb is 100 watts. Using the equation I = P/V, we can calculate how much current in amps would be required to get 100 watts out of this 6-volt bulb.
So, this latter system produces the same power, but with half the current. There is an advantage that comes from using less current to make the same amount of power. The resistance in electrical wires consumes power, and the power consumed increases as the current going through the wires increases. You can see how this happens by doing a little rearranging of the two equations. What you need is an equation for power in terms of resistance and current. Let's rearrange the first equation:
What this equation tells you is that the power consumed by the wires increases if the resistance of the wires increases (for instance, if the wires get smaller or are made of a less conductive material). But it increases dramatically if the current going through the wires increases. So, using a higher voltage to reduce the current can make electrical systems more efficient. The efficiency of electric motors also improves at higher voltages.
The switch never happened, because carmakers were able to boost efficiencies with digital technology and more efficient electric pumps at 12 volts. But newer hybrid and fully electric (EV) cars and trucks have electrical systems that average 450 to 650 volts to run powerful electric motors.
The ampere (A), the SI base unit of electric current, is a familiar and indispensable quantity in everyday life. It is used to specify the flow of electricity in hair dryers (15 amps for an 1,800-watt model), extension cords (typically 1 to 20 amps), home circuit breakers (15 to 20 amps for a single line), arc welding (up to around 200 amps) and more. In daily life, we experience a wide range of current: A 60-watt equivalent LED lamp draws a small fraction of an amp; a lightning bolt can carry 100,000 amps or more.
Defining the ampere solely in terms of the elementary charge e can be viewed as a sort of good news-bad news outcome. On the one hand, it defines the amp clearly in terms of only one invariant of nature that was given an exact fixed value at the time of redefinition. After that, direct measurements of the ampere became a matter of counting the transit of individual electrons in a device over time.
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