Vacuum Tubes as Linear Circuit Elements Class A Single-Stage Amplifiers

This chapter contains sections titled: Basic considerations, Quiescent operation; no grid-signal voltage, Quiescent operation with a cathode-bias resistor, Operation with grid-signal voltage in the linear region of the characteristic curves, Incremental equivalent circuits for linear Class A
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operation, Amplification, or gain, Voltage amplification with cathode impedance, Interelectrode capacitances and input admittance, Interelectrode capacitances in tetrode and pentode amplifiers, Cathode follower, Grounded-grid amplifier, Waveform distortion in amplifiers, Waveform distortion due to nonlinearity of the tube characteristics, Power output and efficiency, Maximum power sensitivity, Maximum power output with a prescribed amount of harmonic generation and a prescribed quiescent plate voltage, Output transformer for impedance matching, Shift of dynamic load line with average plate current, Push-pull connection; Class A
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, Symbols for vacuum-tube circuit analysis, Problems