Although the pump circuit, in one or other of its many guises, has been used
in electronics for some fifty years, textbook explanations of its operation
tend to be either sketchy and qualitative or overly mathematical. This article
aims to remove the confusion surrounding the circuit by concentrating on its
physical operating mechanisms and to show that algebraic analysis can be
replaced by a simple, but novel, graphical procedure.
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