Q.Since the input impedance of an ideal operational amplifier is infinite :
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Infinite input impedance directly forces the input current of an ideal op-amp to be zero — this is one of the two 'golden rules' used to analyse ideal op-amp circuits.
An operational amplifier is modelled, in the ideal limit, with two defining properties at its input: infinite input impedance and infinite open-loop gain (together with, usually, zero output impedance). Input impedance is the ratio of the voltage applied between (or at) the input terminals to the current drawn by those terminals: . If , then for any finite input voltage , the input current . This is exactly the first of the two idealised 'golden rules' of op-amp analysis (the second being that the differential input voltage is driven to zero under negative feedback, i.e. a 'virtual short').
Physically, this reflects the fact that a real op-amp's input stage is a differential amplifier built from transistors (BJT or, more commonly today, FET) whose input terminals draw only a tiny bias/leakage current in practice; treating this as exactly zero is the standard, extremely good approximation used throughout circuit analysis.
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