I may be getting into the author's material not quite fleshed out. I've been all through this awesome online text book, DC and then AC, and now going through semi-conductors and I've thoroughly enjoyed how well the author seems to empathize and predict the details and questions that pop in my head as I'm reading. But this amplifier chapter is leaving some holes in the theory, or else I'm just really dense when it comes to transistors.
On the common collector amplifier the author explains that Vout will nearly be equal to Vin, minus the .7 volt drop. Ok, that makes sense to me *only* if you pretend like that power supply off to the right doesn't exist. Why doesn't that voltage add to the voltage being dropped from Vin across R-load?
In fact, I don't see any reference to the supply voltage on this chapter at all. It's as if he forgot about it, and by extension forgot to explain what happens to it, and why I don't see it across R-load.
Is there some other online resource I should be using?
On the common collector amplifier the author explains that Vout will nearly be equal to Vin, minus the .7 volt drop. Ok, that makes sense to me *only* if you pretend like that power supply off to the right doesn't exist. Why doesn't that voltage add to the voltage being dropped from Vin across R-load?
In fact, I don't see any reference to the supply voltage on this chapter at all. It's as if he forgot about it, and by extension forgot to explain what happens to it, and why I don't see it across R-load.
Is there some other online resource I should be using?