Power Supply Pins: Op-amps require power to operate. They have positive and negative power supply pins (+V and -V) that provide the necessary power levels for the op-amp to function.
Output Pin: The output pin provides the amplified or manipulated signal based on the inputs. It's where the result of the op-amp's operation is obtained.
Offset Null or Offset Adjustment Pins: Some op-amps have offset null pins that can be used to adjust the output offset voltage. This is useful for minimizing any unwanted voltage offset in the output.
Frequency Compensation Pins: In some op-amps, additional pins are used for frequency compensation to ensure stable operation in high-frequency applications.
Balance or Trim Pins: These pins are used in op-amps that are intended to be used in bridge or differential amplifier configurations, where precise balance between inputs is necessary.
An op-amp is a device with two inputs, one inverting and one non-inverting. The output goes to whatever value is needed to make the two inputs the same. This means that, typically, the output is connected to a feedback circuit back into the negative input. This is closed loop, negative feedback operation. Due to the high gain of the op-amp, this configuration makes performance, such as gain and bandwidth, easy to predict.
When the magnitude of Vcc and Vee of op-amp are different the op-amp produces waveforms equal in the size of each rail.
The wording are confusing an op-amp is an op-amp a comparator is another animal. an op-amp can be used as square wave generator by overdriving it but the results are not desirable. However a comparator will be a switch on-off at the set level.
Ideal op amp approximations: -no current goes into the positive or negative input of the op amp. -The open loop gain is infinite. -Voltage at positive input is the same as the negative input.
Because that is the accepted convention. The triangle is the symbol for an amplifier, be it a differential amplifier with two inputs, such as an op-amp, or be it single ended, such as a simple transistor. The triangle symbol is used to show a block diagram of something that might have multiple things inside it, which the op-amp does. It is not generally used to represent a simple transistor, unless you were showing a block diagram. The triangle symbol is also used in digital logic diagrams, to indicate buffers (again, amplifiers), or inverters.