← 1.3 Capacitors and Capacitance

Charge and discharge in RC circuits

Electrical Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

Voltage-time and current-time curves of a capacitive circuit, the time constant tau = R C, and the workshop experiment that verifies them.

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