Many situations require a precision voltage source which can be adjusted through zero to both positive and negative output voltages. An example is a bipolar power supply. Have you ever adjusted your unipolar lab supply down to 0V, then swapped the output leads and adjusted it back up to get a negative voltage output? What happened to your circuit when the input from the low impedance source went open circuit? Were you able to actually adjust the output to 0V, or did a small voltage offset limit the range? This precision bipolar voltage source can solve these problems.