1983 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Basic Operational Amplifier Functions
Author : Graham Bishop
Published in: Linear Electronic Circuits and Systems
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The operational amplifier is basically a differential amplifier with two inputs, one inverting and the other non-inverting. Any signal applied to the inverting input will appear at the output in an amplified inverted form. Similarly, any signal applied to the non-inverting input will appear at the output as an amplified form of the input. Signals applied to both inputs will add or subtract accordingly at the output giving true differential amplification. Identical inputs to both input terminals should, if correctly set up, produce zero output. Figure 7.1 illustrates this simple application of the operational amplifier using d.c. and a.c. signals which are applied as V1 and V2 to produce VOUT. The remainder of this chapter demonstrates many other simple applications of the basic operational amplifier as a prelude to the working circuits of chapter 8.