Day 25

Resistors in an Alternating Circuit 

When we are studying the  Alternating Circuit, we connected the function generator resistor and current meter in series. The potential vs. Time, Current vs. Time, and potential vs Current .

 Capacitors in an Alternating Circuit 

When studying a capacitor in an alternating circuit, the same set up from the resistor was used expect now the resistor is replaced with a capacitor. In AC circuits, capacitors exhibit a resistance. 

Inductors in an Alternating Circuit

When we are studying Inductors in an Alternating Circuit, we used the same set up as previous part except now we are replacing a capacitor by inductance in an AL circuit. Then we collected data and graphs from LoggerPro.

In the final part of the lab, a RC cirtuit in AC was studied. A resistor and a capacitor was hooked up to a function generator and a current meter and volt meter were connected to LoggerPro. Using the graphs the Vmax and Imax were found and the Vrms and Irms. The total resistance within the circuit is the total impedance, or Z.

We then calculate the percent difference for the impedance as well as time phase change.