How to roll of dc gain to unity via an opamp ac amplifier..

operational-amplifier

The following circuit is of an opamp ac amplifier..

The text says:

If only ac signals are being amplified, it is often a good idea to "roll off' the gain to unity at dc, especially if the amplifier has large voltage gain, in order to reduce the effects of finite "input off- set voltage.

How exactly the capacitor help in putting the gain of amplifier to unity at dc inputs(input bias currents)..i mean..look the capacitor is attached in parallel acting as low pass filter i.e shorting all AC to ground..which means attenuated dc output voltage will pass to the inverting input of the opamp causing dc amplification(opamp action)..which is against what is said in the text…

please help….

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Best Answer

The capacitor blocks DC therefore the only parts left (at DC) to consider are the op amp and R2. R1 is in series with an "infinite" impedance caused by C1 and is therefore not part of the DC analysis.

With only R2 present (at DC) the op-amp gain is unity.

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