Experimental Report 3

INVESTIGATION OF ELECTRIC OSCILLATING OF

RL AND RLC CIRCUITS
Class: 736013 – PH1026 Verification of the instructors
Group: 3
Name:Tran Tien Hung
Student ID: 20227835

I. Experiment Motivations

- Understanding the current across an inductor-resistor and RLC circuit.

- Calculating the energy of the oscillation RLC circuit.

II. Experimental result

1. Resistance and Inductance of the coil
a. Without core
I0 = 0,14(A)

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Voltage: VS = 0,4563(V)

Slope S = -890,4402

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Coil inductance :
VS 0,4563 −3
LW /O = = =3.66 ×10 (H)
I O ×|S| 0 ,14 × 890.4402

b. With core (Not experiement)

2. Free oscillation of the RLC circuit

a. Frequency
The current in RLC circuit:

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T = 0.0009(s)

Lw/o = 0.97 x 10-3 (H)

C = 10 x 10-3 (F)

The frequency based on the graph:

1 1
f measured = = =1111.11(Hz)
T 0. 0009

The frequency based on theoretical calculation:

1 1
f prediction= = =51.1( Hz)
2 π √ LC 2 π √ 0.97 ×10−3 × 0.01❑

Comparison:

Δ f =f measured −f prediction=1111.11−52.1=1058.01( Hz)

b. Energy
1 2
U B= L ⅈ
2

1 2
U E= C U
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The total energy in RLC circuit:

1 2 1 2
U =U E + U B = C U + Li
2 2

Comment:

- After stopping the electric power, the energy of the circuit does not decrease
rapidly to zero, it reduces to zero over a short period of time.
- The energy of oscillations of the coil and the capacitor are damped
oscillations.
Explain:

- The energy of the circuit loses by the heat of the resistor at rate i 2 R
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- The graph of total energy is steepest at the time that the magnetic energy
reaches a local maximum because in these times, the current through the coil
is highest, and the loss of energy is mainly due to the resistance of the coil (
ΔQ=i R ).
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