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Equivalent Circuits: Impedances and Sources

Module by: Don Johnson. E-mail the author

Summary: This module describes how to find the Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits of an RLC circuit and sources.

When we have circuits with capacitors and/or inductors as well as resistors and sources, Thévenin and Mayer-Norton equivalent circuits can still be defined by using impedances and complex amplitudes for voltage and currents. For any circuit containing sources, resistors, capacitors, and inductors, the input-output relation for the complex amplitudes of the terminal voltage and current is V= Z eq ⁢I+ V eq V Z eq I V eq I=V Z eq − I eq I V Z eq I eq with V eq = Z eq ⁢ I eq V eq Z eq I eq . Thus, we have Thévenin and Mayer-Norton equivalent circuits as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Comparing the first, simpler, figure with the slightly more complicated second figure, we see two differences. First of all, more circuits (all those containing linear elements in fact) have equivalent circuits that contain equivalents. Secondly, the terminal and source variables are now complex amplitudes, which carries the implicit assumption that the voltages and currents are single complex exponentials, all having the same frequency.
Equivalent Circuits
Equivalent circuits with resistors.
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Equivalent circuits with resistors. (equivalents.png)
Equivalent circuits with impedances.
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Equivalent circuits with impedances. (zequivalents.png)

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Simple RC Circuit
Simple RC Circuit (circuit5b.png)

Let's find the Thévenin and Mayer-Norton equivalent circuits for Figure 2. The open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current techniques still work, except we use impedances and complex amplitudes. The open-circuit voltage corresponds to the transfer function we have already found. When we short the terminals, the capacitor no longer has any effect on the circuit, and the short-circuit current I sc I sc equals V out R V out R . The equivalent impedance can be found by setting the source to zero, and finding the impedance using series and parallel combination rules. In our case, the resistor and capacitor are in parallel once the voltage source is removed (setting it to zero amounts to replacing it with a short-circuit). Thus, Z eq =R∥1i⁢2⁢π⁢f⁢C=R1+i⁢2⁢π⁢f⁢R⁢C Z eq ∥ R 1 2 f C R 1 2 f R C . Consequently, we have V eq =11+i⁢2⁢π⁢f⁢R⁢C⁢ V in V eq 1 1 2 f R C V in I eq =1R⁢ V in I eq 1 R V in Z eq =R1+i⁢2⁢π⁢f⁢R⁢C Z eq R 1 2 f R C Again, we should check the units of our answer. Note in particular that i⁢2⁢π⁢f⁢R⁢C 2 f R C must be dimensionless. Is it?

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