Inductor Circuit Simulation: Understanding Current Rise and Voltage Output

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To understand the inductor circuit.
I am trying to understanding the inductor circuit. I have drawn the below circuit and try to simulate
Schematic of an RL circuit in a simulator: a 5 V voltage source V1 feeds an inductor L1 of 100µ, then resistor R1 of 10 ohms to ground, with the output node labeled Vout. Simulation command .tran 1s.

The Inductor current comes to 500mA and Vout is 5V as per simulation. The current in inductor should slowly increase from 0A to 500mA but i cannot see that in the waveform. Is my understanding correct?
 
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PhysicsTest said:
but i cannot see that in the waveform
Neither can we. What waveform ?
Do you have some equations to describe the behaviour of your circuit ?

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I'm not sure about "slowly".
The time constant for this circuit is L1/R1 = 10uSec.
 
Simulation plot of V(vout) in green on the left axis, ranging about 4.994V to 5.004V, and I(L) in blue on the right axis, ranging about 498.8mA to 501.0mA, over 0 to 1.0s; both traces are flat horizontal lines at 5.000V and 500.0mA.

This is the output waveform i can get. Ok now i started writing the equation for the circuit.
##i(t) = \frac{V} {R} (1 - e^{\frac{-Rt} L})##
Substituting the values
##i(1) = 5/10*(1 - e^{-10^5}) ##
##i = 0.5A##. The answer is matching.
 
The DC analysis sets up 500 mA before the run.
You must use; V1 pulse; initial=0V; Von=5V; Tdelay=5usec;
and .TRAN stop time = 100 usec.
Then see the current rise over about 50 usec.
LTspice screenshot: schematic of V1 pulse source driving inductor L1 (100µ) in series with R1 (10R), with .tran 100u directive; below, a plot of I(L1) rising from 0mA at about 10µs to a plateau near 500mA by about 60µs, axis 0 to 100µs.
 
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