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Handling LapTop Waveforms

Handling LapTop Waveforms
Display it in terms of volts and amps
 
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Step 1LapTop Resources

LapTop Resources
Laptops typically contain the resources to power up a circuit and monitor waveforms.
Many free applications can display the waveforms like an oscilloscope.
The X/Y plot feature can display waveforms like curve tracers.

But curve tracers plots are much more useful,
if they are related to meaningful units like volts and amps. 
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Jul 7, 2010. 9:55 AMBobS says:
WOW! this is DEEP! Somehow I think, one day I might be needing this, tinkering with some gadget... If I only could understand what it is all about... Perhaps some introduction: Wave forms? what do I want to know? Why? Possible appliations? References?

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