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 RC-CIR Worksheet

Your Name: ________________________________

Claire Xin Kat
Signature: ________________________________

Lab partner(s): _________________________________________________________________________

Gayathri Seethamrajn

Course & Section: ___________________

PHUS 122 112
Station # _________________
31 Date: _________________
314/26 ,

1. (Section E.2.) The nominal values of the resistance and capacitance are 10 kΩ and 47 µF, respectively.
What are your measured values?

R = _______
. 36
9
± _______
0 05
_________
kX (units) .
error is 0 5
.
% of measured value

C = _______ ± _______ _________

42 8 0 2 MF .

(units) .

2. (Section E.2.) What is the value of the time constant based on the measured values and nominal (labeled)
values? (47 MF)
Flabeled (10ke) - 10000 -2 0 000047 F = 0 47s

τmeasured = _______
·
=

________ (units) T R C legn manual)

. .

401 S 0 = 3 lab
4x10-3
.
.

003 00235 0 0 > 2

uncertainty 0 47
= ·
.
= .
- .
.

2F = S
↑ measured =
19 36 k 1 ) (42 8 MF) 93602 0000428 0 4006087

τlabeled = _______ ± _______ _________ (units)

.
·
.
= 0 .
= .

0 4700 3 S
-

2 4 x 10
0 401
.
.
.

10 0024)
.

& technically sig figs are 0 4)

.
but uncertainty too small)

3. (Section E.7.) What is the maximum amount of charge stored on the capacitor during charging?
V Vmax of charging 2 652 10 003v (from graph 1)
CV
=
=

Q
.

=
.

± _______
42 8 10 2 MF 0 0000428 10 000002 F
Q = _______
10-4
_________ (units) C = >
-
05x10-4
.

C
.

1 14
.

0
.

. x .

Q 1 135x10 42
-
>
- 1 14x10-4C
=
0 0000428 2 652 = .
·
.
. .

1 ((43
2

V) (142 v3) (((42

-

6 F) 655V) ((42 8x10

-

3F) 653V])2
uncertainty SQ 3 F1 2 652 8 x10 2 2
x 10-6 F)
652 10
-

8 +
· -

:
.
= 2
·
·
.
-
.
x .
. .
. .

6
5 3056x10
Note that you have taken two pairs of data sets, two while charging the capacitor and two while discharging 8Q
-

= .

=
5 31 x10-6C

it. From those graphs, read off the voltage across the resistor and the voltage across the capacitor at the end
.

0 05X10 "C
-
=
.

of each run. (t 10 sec) uncertainty egn =

equ used : B-Ae-1 + /k) SAe-(t/k)) E

(B-Ae (t/k)]) ((B- S
-

(A B
++(k)))2 ((B Ae
-

6k3)] )
- 2

[B-AeE/k/y)2 + +JA)e
-
(t)k)
y -
[B -
Ae
-

+ -
/(k +
-

Charging Discharging
Graph #3 Graph #4

VR = _______ ± _______ _________ (units)

8
. 216 x 10
-
3
0 404x10- 3
.
V
± _______
VR = _______20 066x10-2
-

_________
V
2 359x10
.

(units) -

Graph#1 Graph #2

VC = _______ ± _______ _________

2 .V (units)
652 0 003
.

VC = _______3±0
_______
492x10-3 _________
V
-

(units)
8 .
611 x 10
-

4. (Section E.7.) What should the two pairs of voltages add up to? Do they? Why or why not?
voltages should add up to the voltage according to Kirchoff's loop rule (Um Vc V battery) while
The charging pair
+
of max =

in the loop. For the

voltages should add up to O biC the battery is no
longer charging pair it adds
the discharging pair of ,

of 3 however this max voltage was for a new

battery i the battery used in
reach the max voltage 00 - ,

up to 2 660 V , which does not . ,

we assumed max battery voltage was closer to r2 6V

.

experiment had a lower max charge . When performing the experiment , .

,
so 2 5V was .

estimated max voltage of -2 6V, the charging pair did add up to the max
measurement threshold in Logger Pro-given the .

set as the
would For the discharging pair the voltages added up to -0 032V . which is not significantly close to O , but
Kirchoff's loop rule suggest
,

Voltage as . ,

is still close enough that it abides to Kirchoff's loop rule .

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5. (Section G) What are the five values of the time constant?

τmeasured = _______
401 ± _______
0 _________
S (units) 019

&uncertainty
0 . . formula :

Graph si-ROR) C] CJ) (IR CJ) · -

[R ·
*
+
·

( + SCS -
(R ·
:

τcharging_C = _______
0 454 ± _______
0 003 _________
S (units)
. .

Graph 2

τdischarging_C = _______
0 451 ± _______
001
_________
S (units) . 0 .

Graph 3

τcharging_R = _______
0 ± _______
0004 _________
S (units) .
443 0 .

Graph 4
τdischarging_R = _______ ± _______ _________
S (units) 0 450
. 0 001
.

Compare these five values of the time constant to each other and discuss whether or not they are in
agreement, within estimated errors.

τmean = _______
0 440 _________
S (units) .
standard deviation
:-0
. 44

τstd dev = _______

0 020
_________
S (units) .

Therefore, τ = _______
0 448 ± _______
0 020 _________
S
(units) .
.

6. (Section G) Does the residual plot indicate you had a good fit or a bad fit? Explain.
indicate that the model fit the data well plots
The residuals > most of the were scattered near 0 00 on the
y-axis
-

slope of the residual graph should theoretically also be close to zero based on visual analysis of the points
(Vmeasured-Vmodel) .
The ,

independent potentially random noise. The residual plot can be seen in Graph .
5
This shows that the errors are
on the graph.

7. (Section H) What are your measured values of the resistance and capacitance of the two capacitors?

R = _______
9 36
± _______
OS
.

_________
k]
(units) 0 .

C1 = _______ ± _______ _________

42 .
8
MF (units) 0 21.

C2 = _______
42 ± _______ _________
MF
. 2
(units) 0 . 21

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8. (Section H) What is your calculated time constant for parallel capacitors? For series capacitors?
parallel :

uncertainty Leg OMF

C, + ( z = 42 8 MF 85
MF + 42 2
= =
. .

τcalc_parallel = _______ ± _______

.

0 796 005
_________
S
.

(units) Sceq =
2MF) (85MF)) /T
MF) 185 MF)32
0 .

42 8 + 0 21 + 42
.
.
.
-
2
+ 42 0 + 42 2 + 0 21
. . .
-
= 0 . 29698 + 0 3
.
MF
T R C 9 36k1 85 0MF + 9360+ 85x10 65 0 79565 + 0 796
-

=
·

=
-
. = .
. . .

Yuncertainty equ prev .

written in question 5
(21 2 MF w/sig fig)
τcalc_series = _______ ± _______ _________ (units)
.

↓
0 001
0 .
199 .
S
Jen = E
series : + =
42 . 8MF
+
4 MF =
0 04706
.
Leg =Rou =
21 2409
.
MF >
- 2 . 1249x10- 57

= + =
9. (Section H) What is the time constant from the fit for parallel capacitors? For series capacitors? - uncertainty

τfit_parallel = _______
3817 ± _______ _________
0 .
S
(units) 0 0101
.

graph 7 -
= 0 074MF
.
>
- 0 . 1 MF
T =
R C 2 MF
.
=
9 36k2. 21
. .
>
- 9360k2 ·

2 . 125 x 10
-
5
F = 0 . 19895 >
-
0 1995
.

τfit_series = _______ ± _______ _________ (units)

0 2252
.
0 0003
. S
graph 8 ↑ uncertainty equ in problem 5

10. (Section I) What are your measured values of the resistance and capacitance? What is the theoretical
time constant?

R = _______
9 36 ± _______
OS
. _________
k] (units) 0 .
Forgot to scap 10kE resistor w/ / k2 resistor >
-
used the same resistor as before

C = _______
0 462 ± _______
. 0 002 _________
MF (units) . uncertainty : 0 . 462 0 005
·

.
= 0 00231
.
>
- 0 002
.

τ = _______
32x10-4 ± _______ _________ (units) T 0 462x10- 4 32x10- "S
4
93602 R C F
-

0 19 10 =
= =
x S
. -

4 .
. .
.

uncertainty ST - m
(((9360 502) 462x10" F] (93602 2
462x10 F]) =
1293602 (0 462x10"
: +
F)) 193602 0
462x10" F])2
.
- ·
0 .
- ·
. + 2x10-
* - -
0 .

11. (Section I-analog differentiator) Sketch the waveforms you see for the sine wave and its derivative. 1 89x10 55 = .
-

sin cosine =
0 . 19 x10-4s

M
12. (Section I-analog differentiator) Sketch the waveforms you see for the triangle wave and its derivative.

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 triangle triangle der.-
> Square

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13. (Section I-analog differentiator) Sketch the waveforms you see for the square wave and its derivative.

ITI

GRADE:_______ GRADED BY ________

(out of 30 points) (TA’s initials)

RC-CIR Worksheet 4
Graph 1. Capacitor Charging Potential Over Time
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Graph 2. Capacitor Discharge Potential Over Time
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Graph 3. Resistor Charging Potential Over Time
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Graph 4. Resistor Discharge Potential Over Time
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Graph 5.
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Graph 6. Charging Capacitor Potential Over Time
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Graph 7. Parallel Circuit Potential Over Time
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Graph 8. Series Circuit Potential Over Time
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Graph 9. Log-Log plot of Frequency Vs. Peak-to-Peak Voltage
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