Talk:Steady state (electronics)

No idea
I just read this entire page and still have no idea what a steady state is other than a state without the present of transients (and I'm not even entirely sure what that means.). Someone consider revising for readability. For example, what can we say about the voltage and current during a steady state that can't be said when there is not a steady state? 70.168.88.158 (talk) 02:05, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

You are missing the point - these are problems that have a steady state response if you average over time. There is a short term periodicity. They are very important for coupled problems (i.e., thermoelectric problems where electrical properties are function of the temperature). Coupling prevents direct solution since the model variables are functions of the unknown steady state. Seniore123 (talk) 10:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Forced Response
I have a sever problem about the statement "The forced response of a system has both transient and steady-state components." From many other references like my circuits textbook or other online resources, all of them defines the Forced Response as "The response shows up when you apply the external force to the system and ignore the effect of initial state." In other words, if the system can be described as a linear differential equation, the forced response should be the particular solution for the inhomogeneous equation. It seems that the steady-state response in this article is more likely the forced response that I know about, since transient response or natural response is exactly the complementary solution for a system described by an LDE, and the steady-state response here is defined as the part of total solution that remains when the natural solution dies out after a long period. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.37.105.190 (talk) 17:02, 2 June 2009 (UTC)