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

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

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

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