RC Filter Analysis

Referring again to Fig.E.1, let's perform an impedance analysis of the simple RC lowpass filter.

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Subsections

• Driving Point Impedance
• Transfer Function
• Impulse Response
• The Continuous-Time Impulse
• Poles and Zeros

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.