An equally potent substitute for mesh current analysis is nodal voltage analysis. Matrix analysis is used in both techniques to provide effective circuit solutions. Nodal Voltage Analysis, as the name implies, uses nodal equations to represent Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL) and determines the voltage potentials around the circuit. The fundamental idea is that, for any […]
Voltage
Calculating Average Voltage of Sinusoidal Waveform
Finding the average voltage of an alternating waveform is similar to finding its RMS value, but without squaring the instantaneous values or taking the square root of the final average. The average voltage (or current) of any waveform for example like a sine wave, square wave, or triangular wave, is like a DC value for […]
Calculating Root Mean Square (RMS) Voltage
In the preceding AC Waveform analysis we introduced the concept of RMS (Root-Mean- Square) voltage applicable to sinusoidal waveforms. We learned that, the RMS voltage of a sine wave corresponds to the DC voltage level that would produce identical heating in a resistive element. This tutorial expands upon this foundation, by investigating into a more […]