Excitation, input

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Each port has two terminals one port is for excitation (input) and the other for output. Because linearity is a prerequisite (Section 8.4), all signals are sinusoidal if the excitation is so. Each signal is voltage or current. The four external variables of a two-port black box (Figure 8.1(a)) are vi and ii (first port), V2 and i2 (second port). One class of variables is with both ports CC, another with one CC and the other zero current-voltage reading. The last version is preferable because then two of the electrodes are not polarized. 

In black box theory the excitation (input) and output ports must be defined, the transmission direction must be defined. A network is reciprocal if the ratio between excitation and response remains unaltered when the ports of excitation and response are interchanged. Then the transfer immittances are equal, Y12 = Y21 and Z12 = Z21. Tissue is reciprocal only if it is... 

If linear, a sine excitation input results in a sine response. However, the immittance concept can be extended to nonlinear networks, where a sine wave excitation leads to a nonsinusoidal response. Including a separate immittance value for each harmonic component of the response performs the necessary extension. In the linear region, the principle of superposition is valid. This means, for example, that the presence of strong harmonics in the applied current or voltage would not affect immittance determination at the fundamental frequency or a harmonic (Schwan, 1963). Some lock-in amplifiers can measure harmonic components, making it possible to analyze nonlinear phenomena and extend measurement to nonsinusoidal responses. 

The dynamic character measure (6) reduces to the residual sum of squares arising after fitting a first order model to actual plant step response data. This, of course, generalizes easily to the corresponding metric based on n -order positive real systems. While /.i D as presented involves the use of step-response information, other input types may be considered with the only alteration being the change in Eq. (7) to a finite-time norm in the case of persistently exciting inputs. 

The modal identification was performed using time windows of 3,600 s, in order to comply with the widely agreed recommendation of using an appropriate duration of the acquired time window (ranging between 1,000 and 2,000 times the fundamental period of the structure see, e.g., Cantieni 2005) to obtain accurate estimates of the modal parameters from OMA techniques. In fact, as already pointed out in section Modal Identificatimi from Ambient Vibration Data, OMA methods assume that the excitation input is a zero mean Gaussian white noise, and this assumption is as closely verified as the length of the acquired time window is longer. 

The anisotropy fiinction r t) = (/ (t) -1+ 21 t)) is detemiined by two polarized fluorescence transients / (t) and/j (t) observed parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to the plane of polarization of the excitation pulse. In tlie upconversion experiment, the two measurements are most conveniently made by rotating the plane of polarization of the excitation pulse with respect to the fixed orientation of the input plane... 

This is a reliable way to obtain an excited-state wave function even when it is not the lowest-energy wave function of that symmetry. However, it might take a bit of work to construct the input. 

Fig. 1. Representative device configurations exploiting electrooptic second-order nonlinear optical materials are shown. Schematic representations are given for (a) a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, (b) a birefringent modulator, and (c) a directional coupler. In (b) the optical input to the birefringent modulator is polarized at 45 degrees and excites both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes. The appHed voltage modulates the output polarization. Intensity modulation is achieved using polarizing components at the output.

Earlier a change in its input power or excitation would vary the output, frequency or the voltage of the other machine. There is no such influence on an infinite bus. 

When the power input to PM is increased, the output of G increases. Since E[ is constant at a particular excitation, it changes its phasor location only with respect to Vb- With a change in power input, therefore. i traverses through a fixed trajectory as shown in Figures 16.25 a and b, and with it changes its load angle, 6i, load current, /] and p.f. cos 0. We have considered four possible conditions, to define the performance of the machine, under different levels of power input ... 

When the whole sample surface is irradiated by the exciting X-rays, an image can be obtained in a different way The spot accepted by the transferring lens system in front of the input of the CHA is rastered by introducing deflector plates in front of the lens system. Again, only electrons of a characteristic energy can pass the analyzer. This technique is realized with the Axis series. 

When we examine orbital 35, we find that its symmetry is B2u, so we assign this symmetry to this excited state. Note that the coefficient for this transition is very small, illustrating why we needed the input keyword requesting a larger range of coefficients. 

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