Lab+Report+07

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Here's the data analysis

Aim:

==== The goal of this lab experiment is to analyze the time behavior of a capacitor and an inductor in a series circuit configuration, using ScienceWorkshop and DataStudio software.  In a capacitor, when the switch is on S1, the capacitor will be charged. To find the time, we use the equation V=V0 1- e-t (RC). When the switch is moved to S2, the capacitor discharges through the resistor. To find this time, we use the equation V=V0e-t (RC). In an inductor when the switch is moved to S1, current flows until it reaches a maximum and voltage is zero. To find the time we use the equation I=I0 1-e-t (L/R). When the switch is moved to S2, the current flows out of the inductor and we use the equation I=I0e-t (L/R). ====

LETS GET THIS SHIT DONE ASAP!!!!! What happened this past week is unacceptable!

Here's the procedure:

Conclusion. for part 1 we had very consistent numbers for our runs, we found out that it took slightly less time to charge the one thousand microfarad capacitor than to discharge it, our estimated time of 2 seconds per cycle of charging and discharging was slightly smaller than our averaged time of 3.2 seconds with a percentage error of 37%. we believe that a source of error was the fact that the box alone had some resistance. for part 2 the 200mH inductor we calculated .002 seconds per cycle and averaged .00356 seconds per cycle. our error percentage was 43.8%, we believe this was a large error percentage due in part to human error and computer error. we learned that it takes less time per cycle for an inductor to grow and decay than it does for a capacitor to charge and discharge.