229-A2.1

Activity: Nonlinearity in Circuits

• Instructions: This activity is structured as a tutorial with a design problem at the end. Should you have any questions, clarifications, or issues, please contact your instructor as soon as possible.
• At the end of this activity, the student should be able to:

1. Understand and observe the effects of nonlinearity in electronic circuits.

Visualizing Nonlinearity

Figure 1: An odd function with positive and negative third order coefficients.

Figure 2: An even function with positive and negative second order coefficients.

Let us examine the effects of varying the coefficients of the power series model of our transfer function.