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Re: Failed attempt to explain JAG linearity

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
I believe and agree with you, but I must reneg on our original contract - In order to get the beer, I now ask that you explain this in a way that my students could understand it.
Your are tough Erick... "come and enjoy your beers and I'll give you two more if you can make my kids understand it" would have kept me from dying of thrist while I work on the problem some more.

"I believe" bothers me.. "I understand" would make me feel that at least I have communicated enough for a mentor to understand. This is all I can do. The mentor must take it from there since the level of students varies between something and wiz kids. What I think is missing from this thread are a few time histories that show how the waveform is behaving and maybe I'll spend another day modifying my hbridge.vi to output a waveform as well.

I was able to explain this to my software kids with a white board in about 15 minutes...however, they have had a few prep lectures regarding motor nonlinearities and a little control theory.

Last edited by vamfun : 18-05-2009 at 16:23.