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    1) This document describes a lab experiment using an RLC circuit where a square wave is applied to a series LR circuit and the exponential approach to steady state is observed. 2) In part one, the circuit included a decade resistor box set to 100Ω and 200Ω, and measurements were taken to find the inductance based on the slope of the output graph. 3) In part two, a decade capacitance box was used instead and the inductance was calculated using the capacitance and frequency. The inductance values found were much larger and positive compared to part one.

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    1) This document describes a lab experiment using an RLC circuit where a square wave is applied to a series LR circuit and the exponential approach to steady state is observed. 2) In part one, the circuit included a decade resistor box set to 100Ω and 200Ω, and measurements were taken to find the inductance based on the slope of the output graph. 3) In part two, a decade capacitance box was used instead and the inductance was calculated using the capacitance and frequency. The inductance values found were much larger and positive compared to part one.

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    1) This document describes a lab experiment using an RLC circuit where a square wave is applied to a series LR circuit and the exponential approach to steady state is observed. 2) In part one, the circuit included a decade resistor box set to 100Ω and 200Ω, and measurements were taken to find the inductance based on the slope of the output graph. 3) In part two, a decade capacitance box was used instead and the inductance was calculated using the capacitance and frequency. The inductance values found were much larger and positive compared to part one.

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    Lab 7 LRC

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    1) This document describes a lab experiment using an RLC circuit where a square wave is applied to a series LR circuit and the exponential approach to steady state is observed. 2) In part one, the circuit included a decade resistor box set to 100Ω and 200Ω, and measurements were taken to find the inductance based on the slope of the output graph. 3) In part two, a decade capacitance box was used instead and the inductance was calculated using the capacitance and frequency. The inductance values found were much larger and positive compared to part one.

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    Christina Jean-Francois 111569694

    Lab section: L13

    Lab 7: LRC Circuit


    Intro:

    A RLC circuit (also known as a resonant circuit, tuned circuit, or LCR circuit) is an electrical

    circuit consisting of a resistor (R), an inductor (L), and a capacitor (C), connected in series or in

    parallel. This configuration forms a harmonic oscillator. In this lab, a square wave is applied to a

    series LR circuit. The period of the square wave is adjusted to be long compared with the time

    constant of the LR circuit and the exponential approach to steady state is observed. A decade

    resistance box and a decade capacitance box will both be used to change the value of the

    frequency of circuit.

    Procedure:

    In part I, we first calibrated the oscilloscope and set the function generator to 1kHz square

    waves and connected them, making sure that the period was 1ms.

    We connected the circuit to a decade resistor R that was set to 100Ω. We Adjusted the

    oscilloscope for clear viewing conditions, Using the DC mode on the oscilloscope.

    When the image we were looking for appeared o the screen, we sketched the oscilloscope trace

    and recorded the value of the voltage and time at several points on the trace

    We repeat the above procedure with R =200 Ω. For Part II, we

    replaced the decade resistance box in the circuit with the decade capacitance box and repeated

    the procedure.
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    Analysis:

    For both sections of this lab, square waves are applied to a series LR and LC circuit. The period

    of the square wave is adjusted to be long compared with the time constant of the LR circuit and

    the exponential approach to steady state is observed. Connect the figure as shown. in addition

    to the decade box resistance R, the inductor also has some resistance. The inductors in this lab

    it is approximately 2 Ω. Even though the LRC combination has a high impedance, we place a 1Ω

    resistor across the output of the function generator, to make the overall impedance of the

    circuit low which will be important for having a good signal to measure in this experiment.

    In Part One of the lab, we obtain a graph on the oscilloscope that resembles a falling

    logarithmic function as shown below:

    This shows that as time is increasing, the voltage that is being provided to the resistor is falling.

    When we put the log of the Voltage values by the time, we should obtain a negative diagonal

    slope of the values. As seen in the graph in Figure 1, the value for inductance that we received

    is -373.3. That value is the same in the graph, figure 2, where we had change the resistance to
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    200 ohms. The inductance of the coil is not dependent on the resistor in the circuit, because the

    change in resitors lead to no change in the slope.

    In Part Two of the lab, we obtain a sinusoidal graph on the oscilloscope as shown below.

    This shows that at time increase the voltage fluctuates between a positive and negative Voltage

    with the peaks getting smaller as time becomes greater. We can determine the inductance of

    the circuit by using the equation

    1 𝑅𝑖 2
    𝜔𝑑 = √ −
    𝐿𝐶 4𝐿2

    𝑅2 1
    However the term 4𝐿𝑖 2 in this case reduces down to 0 Leaving us with only 𝜔𝑑 = √𝐿𝐶 to find the

    inductance. 𝜔𝑑 can be calculated using the frequency we recorded and multiplying it by 2𝜋 to

    get the equation 𝜔𝑑 = 2𝜋𝑓. When substituted in for the equation above, we can find the

    inductance using the formula

    1
    2𝜋𝑓 = √
    𝐿𝐶
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    When the capacitance is .001uF we get a Inductance of 730 kH and with a capacitance of .004uF

    we obtain an inductance of 182 kH. These do not agree with our results from part one. The

    inductance has gotten much bigger than in Part one and are now positive values. The

    inductance varies with the capacitance, for as the capacitance grew bigger then inductance of

    the coil has gotten smaller.

    Conclusion:

    In this Lab we had to find the inductance of a coil using a resistor and a capacitor. In Part One

    we had to find the inductance based on our resistance and the slope of our graph which we

    found out to be -R/L. We observed that our values of inductance were the same for both

    resistance in Part 1. In Part Two, we found that our inductance by using the capacitance and the

    frequency. We found that our inductance for part two was significantly bigger then our Part

    one. This could be due to some experimental error like calculating the value of the Frequency

    wrong.

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