Electronic Instrumentation Experiment 2 * Part A: Lissajous Figures and Agilent Software * Part B: Bridges, Capacitors and Sweeps * Part C: Strain Gauges and Potentiometers
Part A w Lissajous Figures w Agilent Intuilink Software
Lissajous Figures
Cathode Ray Tubes x input y input
Cathode Ray Tubes dware/Study_Material/Study_Guide/chap2/toc.html
Oscilloscopes odeRay.html
Lissajous Figures
Lissajous Example 1
Lissajous Example 2
Lissajous Example 3
More Figures
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Part B w Bridges w Capacitors w Sweeps
Wheatstone Bridge
Bridge Circuits A bridge is just two voltage dividers in parallel. The output is the difference between the two dividers.
Capacitors
Capacitors in Series
Capacitors in Parallel
Understanding Capacitor Behavior
Capacitor Impedance
DC Sweeps
AC Sweeps
Notes on Logarithmic Scales
Part C w Strain Gauges w Potentiometers
Strain Gauges
Strain Gauge in a Bridge Circuit
Potentiometers “Pots”
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