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Single-Time-Constant Circuits

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Figure D.1 The reduction of the circuit in (a) to the STC circuit in (c) through the repeated application of Thévenin’s theorem.

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Figure D.2 Circuit for Example D.2.

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Figure D.3 The response of the circuit in (a) can be found by superposition, that is, by summing the responses of the circuits in (d) and (e).

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Figure D.3 (Continued)

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Figure D.4 STC circuits of the low-pass type.

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Figure D.5 STC circuits of the high-pass type.

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Figure D.6 (a) Magnitude and (b) phase response of STC circuits of the low-pass type.

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Figure D.7 (a) An amplifier circuit and (b) a sketch of the magnitude of its transfer function.

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Figure D.8 (a) Magnitude and (b) phase response of STC circuits of the high-pass type.

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Figure D.9 A step-function signal of height S.

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Figure D.10 The output y(t) of a low-pass STC circuit excited by a step of height S.

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Figure D.11 The output y(t) of a high-pass STC circuit excited by a step of height S.

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Figure D.12 A pulse signal with height P and width T.

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Figure D.13 Pulse responses of three STC low-pass circuits.

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Figure D.14 Pulse responses of three STC high-pass circuits.

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