Oscilloscope question

[Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
> I once helped a studnet doing a practical on an LC series circuit. I
> think he was looking at the phase relationship between the applied
> sinusoidal voltage and the voltage across the capacitor. And he couldn't
> get any sort of sane results. IIRC he saw almost no phase change at all.
>
> He was using a standard (albeit cheap) modern double-trace 'scope, which
> would have been quite capable of doing what he wanted. But he had one
> control set wrongly. He got a trace, but it wasn't meaningful.
>
> OK, what was he doing wrong. Some of you will get this instantly, I think...

If he was using a dual trace method of phase comparison... he probably
had the dual trace control set to "alternate" instead of "chopper",
so the trigger was responding to different signals, foiling up
any phase comparison.

Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez    email:
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Dean of Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
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