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Bridge Circuit Quiz
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I found this Bridge Circuit Quiz in my stack of vintage Popular Electronics magazines (I thought all had been posted). I just ordered another batch of Popular Electronics on eBay, so that will provide a dozen or so more quizzes. Your challenge here, compliments of Robert P. Balin, is to decide what the main function of each type of bridge circuit is. Most bridge circuits are designed such that a component of unknown value is inserted into one of its four branches, and then one or more variable components of known values are adjusted to balance the bridge and thereby create a minimum (null) between opposite (circuit-wise) nodes. Admittedly, I did not fare well, but it is because I do not recall having the names associated with many of these bridge circuits. Of course nearly everyone is familiar with the Wheatstone, Kelvin, and Wien bridges. Hyperlinks are provided to information on the bridge circuit theory. I could not find any specific page for Mr. Resonance's bridge, but interestingly many of the pages Google returns has to do with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie) self-destruction due to resonance. Bridge Circuit QuizBy Robert P. Balin
See answers below. Quizzes from vintage electronics magazines such as Popular Electronics, Electronics-World, QST, and Radio News were published over the years - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert P. Balin created most of the quizzes for Popular Electronics. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.
Answers 1 - J The Carey Foster bridge measures capacitance in terms of mutual conductance, and mutual conductance in terms of capacitance. 2 - H The Hay bridge measures the self-inductance of high-Q coils (Q greater than 10), and also determines unknown frequencies. 3 - D The Heaviside bridge measures the mutual inductance of the coils of a transformer in terms of a known self-inductance and known resistances. 4 - I The Kelvin bridge is used when extremely low resistances - down to 0.001 ohm - are to be measured. 5 - C The Maxwell bridge measures the self-inductance of low-Q coils (Q of 10 or less). 6 - F The Owen bridge, like the Hay and Maxwell bridges, measures the self-inductance of coils. The main difference between the Owen and the other two bridges is that the Owen bridge has the two adjustable components in the same arm. 7 - A The Resonance bridge measures capacitance, inductance, and frequency. 8 - G The Schering bridge measures capacitance in terms of a standard capacitor and known resistances. 9 - B The Wheatstone bridge, oldest of the bridge family, is used where accurate resistance measurements - in the range of 1 ohm to approximately 1 megohm - are to be made. 10 - E A Wien bridge is used to measure capacitance by comparison with a standard capacitor, and inductance by comparison with a standard inductor.
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