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PRACTICAL CIRCUITS · Operational amplifiers: characteristics and applications

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What is the typical input impedance of an op-amp?

  1. A100 ohms
  2. B10,000 ohms
  3. CVery low
  4. DVery high
Why An ideal operational amplifier draws essentially no current at its inverting and non-inverting inputs, which means its input impedance is effectively infinite. Real devices come close: bipolar-input op-amps are typically in the megohm range, and FET or CMOS input stages reach thousands of megohms or more. That very high input impedance is what lets an op-amp sample a signal without loading the source, so the gain is set almost entirely by the external feedback resistors. The companion ideal traits are very low (near zero) output impedance and very high open-loop gain.
Watch out The specific figures like 100 ohms or 10,000 ohms look like plausible circuit values, but those are more typical of an op-amp's output loading or of ordinary discrete transistor stages, not the input of an op-amp. Very low describes the output impedance, not the input.
Op-amp ideal: input impedance very HIGH, output impedance very LOW, gain very HIGH.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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  2. E7G02 What is the frequency response of the circuit in E7-3 if a capacitor is added across the feedback resistor?
  3. E7G03 What is the typical input impedance of an op-amp?
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  10. E7G10 What absolute voltage gain can be expected from the circuit in Figure E7-3 when R1 is 1,800 ohms and RF is 68…
  11. E7G11 What absolute voltage gain can be expected from the circuit in Figure E7-3 when R1 is 3,300 ohms and RF is 47…
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