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The Wien bridge, developed by Max Wien in 1891, is a bridge circuit used for precision measurement of capacitance in terms of resistance and frequency. It consists of four resistors and two capacitors and allows for the balancing of the circuit by adjusting the resistor and capacitor values. The bridge is particularly useful for measuring audio frequencies and does not require equal values of resistors or capacitors.

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Wien Bridge - Wikipedia

The Wien bridge, developed by Max Wien in 1891, is a bridge circuit used for precision measurement of capacitance in terms of resistance and frequency. It consists of four resistors and two capacitors and allows for the balancing of the circuit by adjusting the resistor and capacitor values. The bridge is particularly useful for measuring audio frequencies and does not require equal values of resistors or capacitors.

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Wien bridge

The Wien bridge is a type of bridge circuit that was developed by Max Wien in 1891.[1] The bridge
consists of four resistors and two capacitors.

Wien bridge schematic, Uwe-


sinusoidal power supply voltage, Uwy-
measured voltage

At the time of the Wien bridge's invention, bridge circuits were a common way of measuring
component values by comparing them to known values. Often an unknown component would be put
in one arm of a bridge, and then the bridge would be nulled by adjusting the other arms or changing
the frequency of the voltage source. See, for example, the Wheatstone bridge.

The Wien bridge is one of many common bridges.[2] Wien's bridge is used for precision
measurement of capacitance in terms of resistance and frequency.[3] It was also used to measure
audio frequencies.

The Wien bridge does not require equal values of R or C. At some frequency, the reactance of the
series R2–C2 arm will be an exact multiple of the shunt Rx–Cx arm. If the two R3 and R4 arms are
adjusted to the same ratio, then the bridge is balanced.

The bridge is balanced when:[4]

and

The equations simplify if one chooses R2 = Rx and C2 = Cx; the result is R4 = 2R3.

In practice, the values of R and C will never be exactly equal, but the equations above show that for
fixed values in the 2 and x arms, the bridge will balance at some ω and some ratio of R4/R3.

See also

Total harmonic distortion analyzer


Wien bridge oscillator

References

1. Wien 1891

2. Terman 1943, p. 904

3. Terman 1943, p. 904 citing Ferguson & Bartlett 1928

4. Terman 1943, p. 905

Ferguson, J. G.; Bartlett, B. W. (July 1928), "The Measurement of Capacitance in Terms of


Resistance and Frequency" (https://archive.org/details/bstj7-3-420) , Bell System Technical
Journal, 7 (3): 420–437, doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1928.tb01234.x (https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fj.1
538-7305.1928.tb01234.x)

Terman, Frederick (1943), Radio Engineers' Handbook, McGraw-Hill

Wien, M. (1891), "Messung der Inductionsconstanten mit dem "optischen Telephon"


(Measurement of Inductive Constants with the "Optical Telephone")" (https://zenodo.org/record/1
423878) , Annalen der Physik und Chemie (in German), 280 (12): 689–712,
Bibcode:1891AnP...280..689W (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1891AnP...280..689W) ,
doi:10.1002/andp.18912801208 (https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fandp.18912801208)

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20120223142737/http://www.ecelab.com/wien-bridge.htm

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