A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material usually with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. Today, some transistors are packaged individually, but many more are found embedded in integrated circuits.
Some of the earliest work on semiconductor amplifiers emerged from Eastern Europe. In 1922-23 Russian engineer Oleg Losev of the Nizhegorod Radio Laboratory, Leningrad, found that a special mode of operation in a point-contact zincite (ZnO) crystal diode supported signal amplification up to 5 MHz. Although Losev experimented with the material in radio circuits for years, he died in the 1942 Siege of Leningrad and was unable to advocate for his place in history. His work is largely unknown.
Austro-Hungarian physicist, Julius E. Lilienfeld, moved to the US and in 1926 filed a patent for a “Method and Apparatus for Controlling Electric Currents” in which he described a three-electrode amplifying device using copper-sulfide semiconductor material. Lilienfeld is credited with inventing the electrolytic capacitor but there is no evidence that he built a working amplifier. His patent, however, had sufficient resemblance to the later field effect transistor to deny future patent applications for that structure.
<span>German scientists also contributed to this early research. While working at Cambridge University, England in 1934, German electrical engineer and inventor Oskar Heil filed a patent on controlling current flow in a semiconductor via capacitive coupling at an electrode – essentially a field-effect transistor. And in 1938, Robert Pohl and Rudolf Hilsch experimented on potassium-bromide crystals with three electrodes at Gottingen University. They reported amplification of low-frequency (about 1 Hz) signals. None of this research led to any applications but Heil is remembered in audiophile circles today for his air motion transformer used in high fidelity speakers.</span>
The speed at the sound barrier is 343 m/s
Answer: 20.2 m/s
Explanation:
From the question above, we have the following data;
M1 = 800kg
M2 = 1200kg
V1 = 13m/s
V2 = 25m/s
U (common velocity) =?
M1V1 + M2V2 = (M1 + M2). U
(800*13) + (1200*25) = (800+1200) * U
10400 + 30000 = 2000u
40400 = 2000u
U = 40400 / 2000
U = 20.2 m/s
Answer:
Distance, d = 192 meters
Explanation:
We have,
Initial velocity of an object is 10 m/s
Acceleration of the object is 3.5 m/s²
Time, t = 8 s
We need to find the distance travelled by the object during that time. Second equation of motion gives the distance travelled by the object. It is given by :
So, the distance travelled by the object is 192 meters.
So momentum is just velocity times mass, this means Momentum = Velocity x Mass.
We can rearrange this to be Velocity = Momentum/Mass.
Since we know momentum and mass we can now solve.
Velocity = 264/(45+2.5)
= 5.56 m/s
