RC Circuit Experiment

Product Code: EX-5536

Description

Students collect data to understand the relationship between charging and discharging rates and the capacitance and resistance in a simple circuit. The time constant is derived and exponential growth and decay are explored.

PASCO Advantage: The RC Circuit experiment is extremely simple and transparent to set up. It is very easy to measure the time to half charge. It is also easy to verify that the curve is exponential using the curve-fitting capability of PASCO Capstone software.


Designed for use with any of the following

  • 850 Universal Interface
  • 550 Universal Interface

Concepts

  • Charging and discharging a capacitor
  • Exponential growth and decay
  • Time constants

Experiments


What’s Included


Support Documents

Manual Downloads

Product Manuals for the Included Products

Resistor Capacitor Inductor manual (UI-5210)
(139 KB – .pdf – English)
Experiment File
EX-5536 RC Circuit.zip
(455 KB – .zip – English)