AC Wheatstone Bridge:

Impedances at AF or RF are commonly determined by means of an ac Wheatstone bridge. The diagram of an ac bridge is given in Fig. 11.17.

AC Wheatstone Bridge

This bridge is similar to a dc bridge, except that the bridge arms are impedances. The bridge is excited by an ac source rather than dc and the galvanometer is replaced by a detector, such as a pair of headphones, for detecting ac. When the bridge is balanced,

AC Wheatstone Bridge

where Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4 are the impedances of the arms, and are vector complex quantities that possess phase angles. It is thus necessary to adjust both the magnitude and phase angles of the impedance arms to achieve balance, i.e. the bridge must be balanced for both the reactance and the resistive component.

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