Talk:Negative feedback
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has been moved here, this isn't an esoteric topic, it refers to the engineering term.. Perhaps there ought to be a Esoteric Negative Feedbak page??? Dominick 14:23, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] eBay in See Also??
Is this a typo or does eBay have something to do with negative feedback...? Rohitbd 09:28, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Er, deleted text?
Does anyone care to explain why a bunch of the text I added about negative feedback in gaming was deleted, the remainder was commented out, and my reference was removed? I'm not making this stuff up, the book specifically used the term "negative feedback" and the examples seem to make it clear that this kind of cybernetic system responds in a way that tends towards equilibrium. Was it removed because the article is focusing on a narrower meaning of the term, or what? I'm just wondering. Deco 22:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I would say the meaning of the term, as this is primarily a mathematical term. You need a loop, and then to show the response is subtracted from the input, and I think that man in the loop systems don't really count except in a narrow set of cases. I commented it out to see if I can come up with better text and examples. From where I sit, many examples of negative feedback are really examples of negative outcomes. When you put the man in the loop, they can choose to make this positive or negative feedback. If you can somehow show me how a loop is closed thats fine. Thanks for asking here, lets work on the article. Dominick (TALK) 01:05, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
- Well, it is true that I was using it in a less rigorous/precise sense. Maybe it would help to have a more general informal article about positive and negative feedback loops as encountered in daily life and also more precise technical articles for the formal terms used in theory. I don't know. Deco 01:55, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
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- You encounter negative feedback loops every day in your life. Every second, in fact every keypress on your computer. All use amplifiers stabilized by negative feedback. There are few positive feedback loops. Generally if you can build a unstable amplifier, that is made to give outstanding gain, you can stablize it with a negative feedback loop. One application of positive feedback is an oscillator. Generally positive feedback amplifier techniques are only used where it is not possible to make a more stable circuit, like at extreme frequency. Dominick (TALK) 21:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
This information needs to be more specific. What about negative and positive feedback loops in environmental science? -Matt
[edit] Cleanup Tag
Can the original poster of the cleanup tag please give a cogent comment on what additional changes they want within 7 days, or I shall presume all is now well and remove the tag. Bob aka Linuxlad 14:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NFB Section
Do we relly need the blow by blow account in developing the final equation?--Light current 17:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Simplified it a bit--Light current 17:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
V' doesn't reproduce well on my Browser (Linux Firefox IIRC) - compared with V it looks very similar. Bob aka Linuxlad 20:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Very narrow
Negative feedback happens in economics (scarcity causes prices to rise which chokes off demand) and in living systems. If it wasn't abundant in nature the world would fall apart. Yet this article confines itself to amplifiers and capacitors and suchlike. It misses the opportunity to explore a topic central to life itself. Or is that done in another article? David Colver 16:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Component of a negative feedback loop
One of my teachers, in cell biology, mentioned the components of a negative feedback loop and I thought that it may be needed here.
Here are my note: Variable (measurable and changing) -> Change in variable (Stimuli) -> Negative Feedback Loop kicks in =
Receptor ("senses" the variable state) -> Control Center (can tell if the variable from the receptor is not in a good range and then decides and controls the responce) -> Effector (exerts the effect - effects the change) -> Responce (reaction of variable - opposite the stimulius) -> (which then goes back to variable)
