ok, sounds good. From what I know, V(C) + V(R) = V(battery), For the results I got for the charging portion of the experiment, this makes sense. The output of the power supply was 5V, and total V(C) + V(R), at mulitple different times = approximately 5V, with the V(C) value, going up as the...
Also, can anyone talk to me about the relationship between V(C), V(R) and total V in an RC circuit? Why is delta V(R) negative when the circuit is discharging and positive when it is charging? What is the relationship between V(C) + V(R) while the circuit is charging, and V(C) and V(R) while the...
I'm working on an RC circuit lab and I can't figure out if my graph of R vs. tau is supposed to go through the origin. According to the equation tau = RC, it seems like the graph definitely should pass through the origin. However, given the definition of tau as the time constant equal to the...