I have this question, what effects do complex waveforms have on capacitors, inductors and resistors? It's kind of confused me now, does something magical happen?

 

Hi,

You have it backwards - it's the effect capacitors and inductors have on complex waveforms that you're looking for.

Resistors should have no effect. The wirewound kinds will act as inductors, though.

Capacitors act as frequency variable resistors, whose conduction gets better as the frequency gets higher. Inductors act to increase their impedance (frequency dependant resistance) with increasing frequency. R-C-L networks can have interesting effects on complex waveforms. Digging around, you can find such networks that will convert square pulse trains into numeric characters on a CRT, etc..

 

Originally posted by 999life@Jan 23 2005, 03:46 PM
I have this question, what effects do complex waveforms have on capacitors, inductors and resistors? It's kind of confused me now, does something magical happen?

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You get to use derivitives and integrals in EE finally.