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Uncommon card · Science
Gyrator, an Uncommon card
A gyrator is a passive, linear, lossless, two-port electrical network element proposed in 1948 by Bernard D. H. Tellegen as a hypothetical fifth linear element after the resistor, capacitor, inductor and ideal transformer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Gyrator quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gyrator card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Unlike the four ______ elements, the gyrator is non-reciprocal.
Answer
conventional. Unlike the four conventional elements, the gyrator is non-reciprocal. From the Gyrator article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Corewell Health. Corewell Health 28,000 · Zakariya al-Qazwini 22,000 · Gyrator 17,000 · Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B 13,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Unlike the four conventional elements, the gyrator is non-reciprocal.
- Gyrators permit network realizations of two--port devices which cannot be realized with just the four conventional elements.
- In particular, gyrators make possible network realizations of isolators and circulators.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gyrator article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Gyrator
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gyrator (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Catslash, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
