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Chapter 7 - More About Small-Signal Amplifiers

  1. Learn more about negative feedback and prepare a report about its history and some of its applications.
    www.att.com/technology/history/chronolog/27neg.html
    www.manleylabs.com/about99.html
  2. Go to: www.invent.org/ and look up negative feedback amplifier.
  3. Lookup feedback in the NASA dictionary:
    http://roland.lerc.nasa.gov/~dglover/dictionary//f.html

OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT:

Use a search engine such as GOOGLE and enter the words negative feedback.
WARNING: you will get thousands of hits but it will be interesting to see how many fields use the concept of negative feedback. Prepare a list of the areas of human knowledge where this concept is applied. Can you identify any general ideas about how negative feedback leads to stability in any type of system?


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