A smorgasbord of analog treats awaits you as our resident Analog Guru, John Dunn, touches upon a variety of topics taken from his popular Living Analog blog published by the EDN Network on EDN.com.
Topics for this lecture include these and more:

• Control of a power inverter’s operating frequency.
• A look at telephone dial tone signals, 1954 and today.
• Birds’ avoidance of high-tension power lines.
• Gaussian probability distribution derivation.
• Bimetallic strip constructions and applications.
• Feed-forward cancellation of amplifier distortion.
• Push-pull amplifier class of operation choices.
• Worst case analysis of rail voltage decoupling.
• Microwave oven choke flange.
• Calculating octaves and decades of arbitrary ratios.
• Zero offset lowpass filter and op-amp selection.
• Low distortion but high power speaker system.
• The difference between EMF and voltage.
• The Leyden jar.
• Smith Chart mathematics.
• Transfer function trigonometric booby trap.
• Storage life of idled LED light bulbs.
• A look at the Hindenberg disaster.