Electronic Instrumentation Experiment 2 Part A Lissajous Figures

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 Lissajous Figures w Agilent Intuilink Software w

Lissajous Figures http: //encyclozine. com/Science/Mathematics/Graphs/Lissajous/

Cathode Ray Tubes y input x input http: //www. chem. uiuc. edu/clcwebsite/video/Cath. avi

Cathode Ray Tubes http: //webclass. cqu. edu. au/Units/81120_FOCT_Har dware/Study_Material/Study_Guide/chap 2/toc. html

Oscilloscopes http: //boson. physics. sc. edu/~hoskins/Demos/Cath ode. Ray. html

Lissajous Figures

Lissajous Example 1

Lissajous Example 2

Lissajous Example 3

More Figures

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Part B Bridges w Capacitors w Sweeps w

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 Strain Gauges w Potentiometers w

Strain Gauges

Strain Gauge in a Bridge Circuit

Potentiometers “Pots”

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