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OBJECTIVES
a. To introduce concepts of charging and discharging of capacitors
b. To determine charging and discharging voltage of a capacitor and its (Rc) time
constant.
c. To plot the voltage against time during charging and discharging.
Voltage Measurements
Resistance 100k Resistance 100k
Voltage Voltage
T Time T Time
Charging Discharging Charging Discharging
Then for the second part of the experiment we turned off the power supply and the
capacitor reading started decreasing. Till the reading stopped at 6.
V. Answers to Questions
1. Compare the time it takes to fully charge the capacitor in trial 1 & 2.
Comparing trial 1 and trial 2, we can see that the lower capacitor we use, the
faster it charges.
2. The Voltage across the capacitor, Vc at any instant time during the charging
method in given Vc= Vs(1-C^-2/Rc) where Vs is the voltage supply, R is the
resistance in ohm, C is the capacitance in Farad, t is the time elapsed since the
applicated of supply a.) What is the voltage across the capacitor in trial 1 after
10 seconds?
The capacitor across the capacitor in trial 1 after 10s is 2.5.
VI. Conclusions.
As the reading were obtained. The experiment was carried out as instructed.
Discharging will be gain when the capacitor is disconnected rom the power supply
then it will start to discharge while it charges when it is connector to a DC supply
and when the current starts to flow. The experiment was carried out as instructed.
Thus in this experiment the objective was obtained.