Chapter 16: Special Devices

Example 1, Page 397

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import math

#Variable declaration
Vp=15.#Vp=firing voltage of a unijunction transistor in Volts
VBB=40#VBB=source voltage in Volts

#Calculations&Results
n=(Vp/VBB)#n=intrinsic stand-off ratio
print "The intrinsic stand-off ratio is %.3f"%n
R=50*(10**3)#R=resistance in ohms
C=2000*(10**-12)#c=capacitance in farad
T=(R*C*math.log(1/(1-n)))*(10**6)#T=time period of the sawtooth voltage across C
print "The time period is %.f us"%T
The intrinsic stand-off ratio is 0.375
The time period is 47 us