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While studying amplifiers, I came across the AC equivalent circuit of an amplifier:

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To calculate the output resistance of the amplifier, the input signal was set to zero and the load resistance was removed as shown in the figure:

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What is the reason for doing so?

Link to the PDF I am referring to is here.

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To calculate the Thévenin equivalent circuit, you set voltage sources to zero (make voltage sources shorts) and calculate the impedance between the nodes with no load. That's all that's happening here. It's just explicitly showing that the dependent voltage source is also zero (a short). That means the output impedance is whatever R0 is.

In the PDF they also describe how you can use that to measure the output impedance as Tony Stewart points out in the comments.

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  • So we have to consider the thevenin equivalent circuit while calculating the output impedance ? – Essar May 16 '21 at 13:53
  • It's a way of doing it (assuming the model is appropriate). Thevenin equivalence basically reduces things to voltage sources + output resistance. It works if your model is linearized (in other words approximated) around some operating point (that is, q point). – KD9PDP May 16 '21 at 14:56