Electronics Night: Basic AC Analysis and Filters

Electronics Night is an irregularly scheduled study group on an intermediate or advanced topic in electronics.

This session will be on the AC analysis of basic passive components: resistors, inductors and capacitors.

Topics we could cover:

• Basic model of capacitors and inductors

• RC circuits and time constant

• RLC circuits, especially as found the amateur radio exams

• Filters and resonance

• Power transfer and characteristic impedance

Things to read before you arrive or have open on a laptop/tablet:

Wikipedia pages for capacitor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor), inductor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductor), RC time constant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_time_constant), RC circuit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_circuit), RLC circuit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RLC_circuit), LC circuit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC_circuit), resonance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resonance)

KB6NU study guide entries: phase angle between voltage and current (http://www.kb6nu.com/extra-class-question-of-the-day-phase-angle-between-voltage-and-current-phase-angles-of-series-and-parallel-circuits/), resonance (http://www.kb6nu.com/extra-class-question-of-the-day/), time constant (http://www.kb6nu.com/extra-class-question-of-the-day-the-rc-time-constant/),

Post more suggestions in the comments!