PHYSICS PROJECT

ON
HALF WAVE
RECTIFIER

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 CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgement
Certificate
Introduction
Rectifier Circuit
Half-Wave Rectifier
Peak Inverse Volta
Ripple Factor
Form Factor
Peak Factor
Result
 PREFACE

I feel Immense pleasure to pleasure this

project based on “ Half - Wave
Rectifier ”. This project is based on
academic session 2012-2013.it is hoped that
this project will line up to the expectation of
the examination and meet the requirements.

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 Acknowledgement

I would like to express my special thanks to gratitude to

my teacher as well as our principal who gave me a
golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the
topic “HALF WAVE RECTIFIER” and also for their
valuable guidance and support provided by them to me.
He has displayed unique tolerance and understanding at
every step . I am thankful to all other teachers of
Physics department for their guidance and kind help. I
would also like to thank my parents and friends who
helped me a lot in finishing this project within the
limited time

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HALF WAVE RECTIFIER
 Rectifier Circuit

• The arrow on the diode ( )

indicates the direction of the
current in the diode
• Because of the diode, the
alternating current in the load
 resistor is reduced to the positive
portion of the cycle

Half-Wave Rectifier

• The solid line in the graph is the

result through the resistor
• It is called a half-wave rectifier
because current is present in the
circuit during only half of each
cycle
THE HALF WAVE RECTIFIER

input vol
Transient Response
Half Wave Rectifier
Peak Inverse Voltage
When the input voltage reaches its
maximum value Vm during the
negative half cycle the voltage across
the diode is also maximum. This
maximum voltage is known as the
peak inverse voltage. Thus for a half
wave rectifier
                   
Let Vi be the voltage to the primary of
the transformer. Vi is given by
                                                           
where Vr is the cut-in voltage of the
diode.
Ripple Factor
Ripple factor is defined as the ratio of
rms value of ac component to the dc
component in the output.
Ripplefactor

      .

                                        
Vav the average or the dc content of the
voltage across the load is given by
RMS voltage at the load resistance can
be calculated as

Ripple factor
 Efficiency
Efficiency, h is the ratio of the dc
output power to
                               

                

Transformer Utilization Factor

Transformer Utilization Factor, TUF
can be used to determine the rating of
a transformer secondary.
                                               
In half wave rectifier the rated voltage
of the transformer secondary is

But actually the RMS current flowing

through the winding is only    .

                         
                                                                   
                         Form Factor
Form factor is given by,
                                          
Peak Factor
Peak factor is given by,

Result: -
The output waveform may be observed
in the waveform viewer.