Bode Plot
Bode Plot
• Bode plots are semilog plots of the magnitude (in decibels) and
phase (in degrees) of a transfer function versus frequency.
Figure 1.
• The spacing of the log scale is determined by taking the
common log (to the base 10) of the number.
• The log scale does not begin at zero. It begins at 1,
because log1 = 0.
• The distance on the log scale between 1 and 2 is
because of the fact that log102 = 0.3010. Hence 2
appears at about 30 per cent of the full distance of a log
interval (or decade).
• The distance between 1 and 3 is log103 = 0.4771. Hence
3 appears at about 48 per cent of the full distance of a
log interval.
• Log104 = 0.6021 (this is of course 2 log102). Hence 4
appears at about 60 per cent of the full distance of a log
interval.
• It is clear from Figure. 1 that, though intervals
on the log scale become smaller at the high
end of each interval, a single graph can
provide a detailed frequency response
extending over a wide range of frequency
intervals –from 1 kHz to 10 MHz as illustrated.
• Example. Plot the frequency response data
shown using semi-log graph paper.
The transfer function can be written as
Example 2.