International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 14 (1991), Issue 2, Pages 403-406
doi:10.1155/S0161171291000480

A double chain of coupled circuits in analogy with mechanical lattices

J. N. Boyd and P. N. Raychowdhury

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23284, Virginia, USA

Received 2 July 1990

Copyright © 1991 J. N. Boyd and P. N. Raychowdhury. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

A unitary transformation obtained from group theoretical considerations is applied to the problem of finding the resonant frequencies of a system of coupled LC-circuits. This transformation was previously derived to separate the equations of motion for one dimensional mechanical lattices. Computations are performed in matrix notation. The electrical system is an analog of a pair of coupled linear lattices. After the resonant frequencies have been found, comparisons between the electrical and mechanical systems are noted.