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Role of C2 (bypass capacitor)

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I have been reading about thermal noise in resistors and I have a question:

Suppose we have this circuit:

Is C2 here to protect the voltage source from thermal noise?

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Artificial circuit (3 comments)
Artificial circuit
Lundin‭ wrote 12 months ago

The circuit is so artificial and abstract there's no telling what a cap would be good for. Mostly caps directly on the supply are there to act as "bulk caps", stabilizing the voltage coming from the supply.

Volpina‭ wrote 12 months ago · edited 12 months ago

@Lundin My line of thinking was that by adding a big capacitor parallel to the DC voltage source , any noise current due to the thermal noise voltage of the resistors wont flow inside the voltage source which may damage it.

Lundin‭ wrote 12 months ago

In that case you really need to specify what the voltage source is and why it would be vulnerable to such.