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    This lab report describes an experiment using a series RC circuit excited by a step function. The student constructed the circuit and captured waveforms at 500Hz and 100Hz on an oscilloscope. Calculations were made to determine the voltage and time values when the signal reached 63.2% and 36.8% of the final value. Measurements were taken from the oscilloscope and percent errors between calculated and measured values were found to be less than 10%. Changing components to an inductor and resistor would create a high pass filter, passing high frequencies fully but blocking low frequencies.

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    This lab report describes an experiment using a series RC circuit excited by a step function. The student constructed the circuit and captured waveforms at 500Hz and 100Hz on an oscilloscope. Calculations were made to determine the voltage and time values when the signal reached 63.2% and 36.8% of the final value. Measurements were taken from the oscilloscope and percent errors between calculated and measured values were found to be less than 10%. Changing components to an inductor and resistor would create a high pass filter, passing high frequencies fully but blocking low frequencies.

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    This lab report describes an experiment using a series RC circuit excited by a step function. The student constructed the circuit and captured waveforms at 500Hz and 100Hz on an oscilloscope. Calculations were made to determine the voltage and time values when the signal reached 63.2% and 36.8% of the final value. Measurements were taken from the oscilloscope and percent errors between calculated and measured values were found to be less than 10%. Changing components to an inductor and resistor would create a high pass filter, passing high frequencies fully but blocking low frequencies.

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    Lab Report 8: Transient RC Circuits

    Clayton Hatfield
    November 2, 2020
    Introduction:

    The objective of this lab is to observe the response of a series resistive-capacitive circuit

    excited with a step function.

    Procedure:

    The first thing to do in this lab was to turn on all of my equipment to warm them up and

    construct the circuit given during this time. The input from the function generator was then set to

    be a 500Hz square wave going from 0 to 4V by using a 2V DC offset. We then had to capture at

    least 2 periods of the wave on the screen on the O-scope’s screen, then sketch and label the input

    and output waveforms. These steps were then repeated but changing the frequency to 100Hz.

    Using these two frequencies, we had to find the point where the voltage is 63.2% on the

    rising portion and 36.8% on the falling portion.

    Calculations:

    Calculating the time and voltage at which the rising edge’s voltage is at 63.2% and the

    falling edge is at 36.8%.

     Voltage calculation: 4v times the percentage we want the volage at

    o 4 × .632 = 2.528v

    o 4 × .368 = 1.472v

     Time calculation: RC

    o 3kΩ × 244nF = 747Ms


    The last calculation that I had to make was the percent error of the calculations above and the

    measurements that I took of these values.

    Calculated Percent Error


    Voltage after one τ (rising), V 2.528 1.12%
    Voltage after one τ (falling), V 1.472 1.86%
    τ (measured rising), s 747Ms 3.75%
    Τ (measured falling), s 747Ms 9.85%

    Measurements:

    The measurements in this lab consisted of using the O-scope’s cursor function in order to

    get a specific value for the time and the voltage at those given percentages. Those values are

    listed in the table below.

    Measured Values
    Voltage after one τ (rising), V 2.5
    Voltage after one τ (falling), V 1.5
    τ (measured rising), s 720Ms
    Τ (measured falling), s 680Ms

    Questions:

    1. Why did we change the input from 500 to 100 Hz? What would the output be if the input

    frequency were infinitely high? What if it was 0?

    - The frequency was changed for us to see the square wave better. If the frequency was

    infinitely high the voltage across the capacitor will be close to 0. When the frequency

    is very low, the full voltage value is passed.


    2. How would changing the value of the resistor affect the time constant? Why? What about

    the capacitor?

    - Changing the value of the resistor would greatly affect the time constant due to the

    equation used to calculate it (value of resistor time value of capacitor). Changing

    either or would greatly change the time constant.

    3. Replace the capacitor with a 150 mH inductor and the resistor with a 1kΩ resistor.

    Change the frequency to about 50 kHz. Explain what you see at the original frequency

    and at 50 kHz.

    - This generates a high pass filter which allows infinitely high frequencies to pass

    through meaning the inductor passes the full voltage. Where as when the frequency is

    low, the inductors voltage will get closer and closer to 0.

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