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Section 8.11 Applications

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Section 8.11 Applications

8.78 An automobile airbag igniter is modeled by the circuit in Fig. 8.122. Determine the time it takes the voltage across the igniter to reach its first peak after switching from A to B. Let R = 3 ฮฉ, C = 1โˆ•30 F, and L = 60 mH.

8.79 A load is modeled as a 100-mH inductor in parallel with a 12-ฮฉ resistor. A capacitor is needed to be connected to the load so that the network is critically damped at 60 Hz. Calculate the size of the capacitor.

8.83 Figure 8.124 shows a typical tunnel-diode oscillator circuit. The diode is modeled as a nonlinear resistor with iD = f (vD), i.e., the diode current is a nonlinear function of the voltage across the diode. Derive the differential equation for the circuit in

terms of v and iD.