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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Tubes/bipolar/FETs
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 14:38:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 14:38:54 1984
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The "slew rate" of an amplifier is a measure of its ability to respond to
an instantaneous change in the voltage at it input from one DC value
to another, for example, from -3 volts to +3 volts via a hard switch.
This will cause the amplifier's output to "slew" from one voltage to
another at some rate, given in volts per microsecond, which is dependent
on the speed of the internal circuitry.  I believe that bipolar transistor
amplifiers have the highest slew rate in the pack.
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                               Bob Fishell
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