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Stability problem in unity-gain opAmp

As a part of a controlled power supply for hardware-in-loop testing for a student driven project, I had to develop a current buffer (voltage follower) which could source up to 1 A. I had the (bad) ...
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1answer
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How can you guarantee stability of an inverting opamp configuration amplifier?

I had to design a circuit for measuring the voltage of a negative power supply rail (-15 V) and feeding it into a ADC (0-3 V DC-coupled input range). This measurement is only used for diagnostics and ...
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1answer
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What does it mean for amplifiers to be stable only down to N gain, where N > unity?

This is related to What's special about "unity-gain stable"? which is about unity gain stability. But what exactly does it mean if some op-amp is said to be only stable to, say, gain ...
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Does this voltage regulator use “on-off” control, or is it a voltage follower?

In Electronics A2 (GCE), we are currently studying voltage regulators. An example voltage regulator circuit is provided using an op-amp and a power MOSFET. I would judge this to be a voltage ...
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1answer
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OP07 unity gain

Is an OP07 unity gain stable ? I am powering it with a +/- 5V supply. I am using it to buffer a DC signal which varies slowly. Most of the modern Op-amps have their datasheets mentioning them ...
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2answers
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Op-amps and Capacitive Loads

I understand that having an capacitive load at the output of an op-amp can potentially make the circuit unstable. However, how can I go about calculating this? For instance, I'm trying to design a ...