A rectifire control speed of current
A four diode circuit to change ac to dc
this is the circuit that show the power supply
A: The same as a half wave rectifier RMS x1.41
There is an article in Wikipedia which gives full details on how rectifiers work - including circuit diagrams. See related link.
Since the output of the rectifier is a close approximation of a sawtooth waveform, then all harmonics starting at the second harmonic are present in the full wave bridge rectifier output.
A fuse-based light is simply a regular light bulb in a different enclosure with a different design. To do this, you wouldn't need a bridge rectifier, unless your input was DC and needed to be converted to AC, which you couldn't just hook the bulb directly to the source power.
A 120V AC signal (such as at a power socket) is a sine-wave with a peak amplitude of about 170V and -170V or 340V peak-to-peak. A half-wave rectifier is basically a single diode which will clip off one half of the cycle leaving the other with a slight reduction in voltage. A silicon diode has a forward voltage drop of about .7 (seven tenths) of a volt, so if the input signal is 170V peak (340V Peak-to-peak), the output would be about 169.3V peak.
The input and output amplitudes should be (approximately) the same.The amplitude of a periodic waveform is defined to be the difference between its average (or reference) and "peak" value. In the United States, the electricity from a standard wall plug is a "120 V" sine wave. This means that relative to ground, the waveform is varying from about -170V to +170V (the "120" number is the RMS value), so the amplitude is 170V. If you use this as the input to a half-wave rectifier, the output will lose either the positive-going or negative going swings; the output will go, for example, from 0 to +170V. Measured from the 0V reference, the output amplitude is 170V.
The full wave rectifier is a means of converting alternating current (ac) into direct current (dc). It is done with either the use of 2 diodes coming off a center tapped transformer, or by using a bridge rectifier, which conists of 4 diodes ganged together in a certain configuration. As it's name implies, it converts both the positive going and the negative going parts of the sign wave into useable dc, and therefore is more efficient than a half wave rectifier, which only converts 1/2 of the complete sign wave into useable dc.