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ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES · Resonance and Q: characteristics of resonant circuits; series and parallel resonance; definitions and effects of Q; half-power bandwidth

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What is the result of increasing the Q of an impedance-matching circuit?

  1. AMatching bandwidth is decreased
  2. BMatching bandwidth is increased
  3. CLosses increase
  4. DHarmonics increase
Why Q is the ratio of a resonant circuit's center frequency to its half-power bandwidth, BW = f0/Q. An impedance-matching network is a resonant circuit, so raising its Q sharpens the response and the range of frequencies over which a good match is maintained shrinks. A low-Q matching network is broadband and covers a whole band; a high-Q network may match only over a few tens of kHz and needs retuning as you move.
Watch out The idea that harmonics increase is backwards: a higher-Q network is more selective and actually attenuates harmonics better, which is why tank circuit Q matters in transmitter output stages.
BW = f0/Q. Q up, bandwidth down. High Q = sharp and narrow, low Q = broad.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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