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make electric circuits. These 0dss?ue circu#t clements, as they are often called, |
are of three main types, although each one has a little bit of the other wo mixed |
in. Before describing them in greater detail, let us note that the whole idea of our |
mnechanical oscillator beïng a mass on the end oŸa spring is only an approximation. |
All the mass is not actually at the “mass”; some of the mass is in the inertia of |
the spring. Similarly, all of the spring is not at the “spring”; the mass itself has a |
little elasticity, and although it may appear so, it is not øbsolu‡elu rigid, and as it |
goes up and down, i% fexes ever so slightly under the action of the spring pulling |
it. The same thing is true in electricity. Phere is an approximation in which we |
can lump things into “circuit elements” which are assumed to have pure, ideal |
characteristics. It is not the proper time to discuss that approximation here, we |
shall simply assume that it is true in the cireumstances. |
The three main kinds of cireuit elements are the following. “The first is called a |
capacitor (EFig. 23-4); an example is 0wo plane metallic plates spaced a very small |
distance apart by an insulating material. When the plates are charged there is |
a certain voltage diference, that is, a certain diference in potential, between |
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ẠA C E |
B D F |
CAPACITOR RESISTOR _ INDUCTOR |
Fig. 23-4. The three passive circuit elements. |
them. "The same diference of potential appears bebween the terminals A4 and Ö, |
because if there were any diference along the connecting wire, electricity would |
fow right away. So there is a certain voltage diference V between the plates If |
there is a certain electric charge +g and —q on them, respectively. Between the |
plates there will be a certain electric field; we have even found a formula for 1% |
(Chapters 13 and 14): |
V = ơd/sạ = qd/eoA, (23.14) |
where đ is the spacing and A is the area of the plates. Note that the potential |
diference is a linear function of the charge. If we do not have parallel plates, |
but insulated electrodes which are of any other shape, the diference in potential |
1s still precisely proportional to the charge, but the constant of proportionality |
may not be so easy to compute. However, all we need to know is that the |
potential difference across a capacitor 2s proportional to the charge: V = q/C: |
the proportionality constant is 1/Œ, where Œ is the capacitance oŸ the object. |
'The second kind of circuit element is called a reszstor; 1t offers resistance to |
the Ñow of electrical current. It turns out that metallic wires and many other |
substances resist the fÑow of electricity in this manner: if there is a voltage |
diference across a piece of some substance, there exists an electric current Ï = |
dq/đt that is proportional to the electric voltage difference: |
V = RÏI = hdaq/dt (23.15) |
'The proportionality coefficient is called the resis‡tønece Rì. Thĩs relationship may |
already be familiar to you; i% is Ohm”s law. |
Tf we think of the charge g on a capacitor as being analogous to the displace- |
ment # of a mechanical system, we see that the current, Ï = dg/dt, is analogous |
to velocity, L/Œ is analogous to a spring constant k, and ?# is analogous to the |
resistive coefficlent e = zm+y in Eq. (23.6). Now it is very interesting that there |
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exists another circuit element which is the analog of massl “This is a coil which |
builds up a magnetic feld within itself when there is a current in it. A changing |
magnetic feld develops in the coil a voltage that is proportional to đĨ/đf (this |
is how a transformer works, in fact). The magnetic feld is proportional to a |
current, and the induced voltage (so-called) in such a coil is proportional to the |
rate of change of the current: |
V = LdI/dt = Ld°q/dtẺ. (23.16) |
The coeficlent Ù is the sejf-?nductfance, and is analogous to the mass in a |
mmechanical oscillating circuit. |
Fig. 23-5. An oscillatory electrical circuit with resistance, Iinductance, |
and capacitance. |
Suppose we make a circuit in which we have connected the three circuit |
elements in series (Eig. 23-5); then the voltage across the whole thing from 1 |
to 2 is the work done in carrying a charge through, and it consists of the sum |
of several pieces: across the induetor, Vy„ = Ld2q/di2; across the resistance, |
Vn = Tìdq/dt; across the capacitor, Vơ = g/C. The sum of these is equal to the |
applied voltage, V: |
Ld?q/di° + Rdq/dt + q/C = VỆ). (23.17) |
Now we see that this equation is exactly the same as the mechanical equa- |
tion (23.6), and oŸ course it can be solved in exactly the same manner. WWe |
suppose that V(£) is oscillatory: we are driving the circuit with a generator with |
a pure sine wave oscillation. Then we can write our V(£) as a complex V with |
the understanding that it must be ultimately multiplied by e”“, and the real part |
taken in order to fnd the true W. Likewise, the charge g can thus be analyzed, |
and then in exactly the same manner as in Eq. (23.8) we write the corresponding |
equation: the second derivative of ậ is (2)2â; the fñrst derivative is (2)ệ. Thus |
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Eq. (23.17) translates to |
9 . 1Ì, _« |
L()“ + T() + cl?Z V |
L1(0u)2 + R() + — |
which we can write in the form |
ậ= Ÿ/L(uỆ — w2 + i2), (23.18) |
where œä = 1/EŒ and + = R/L. It is exactly the same denominator as we had |
in the mechanical case, with exactly the same resonance propertiesl The corre- |
spondence between the electrical and mechanical cases is outflined in Table 23-1. |
Table 23-1 |
General Mechanical Eilectrical |
characteristic property property |
indep. variable time (#) time (?) |
dep. variable position (z) charge (g) |
inertia mass (mm) inductance (L) |
resistance drag coef. (c = +m) resistance (lề = +yL) |
stifness stifness (k) (capacitance)” (1/Œ) |
resonant frequency u = k/m uạ = 1/LƠ |
period to = 2mav/Èm/È to = 2xV ÙŒ |
fgure of merit Q=,u0/^2 Q=uoL/R |
We must mention a small technical point. In the electrical literature, a |
diferent notation is used. (From one field to another, the subject is not really |
any diferent, but the way of writing the notations is often different.) Eirst, 7 |
1s commonly used instead of ¿ in electrical engineering, to denote —1. (After |
all, ¿ must be the currentl) Also, the engineers would rather have a relationship |
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