Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws
Verify the laws for a resistive circuit using a DC input and for a time varying RC circuit. The DC portion and the RC portion of the lab are each stand-alone...
Capacitance
Investigate how the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor varies when the plate separation is changed and to qualitatively see the effect of introducing...
RC Circuit
For a capacitor discharging through a resistor, the half-life for the decay is measured directly and also calculated using the capacitive time constant.
LRC Series Circuit
The phase differences between the output voltage, the voltage across the inductor, the voltage across the capacitor, and the voltage across the resistor...
LRC Resonance
The current through a series LRC circuit is examined as a function of applied frequency and the effects of changing the values of the resistance, inductance,...
Properties of Diodes
Investigate the characteristic curves (I vs. V) of various types of diodes and to determine their “turn-on” voltages.
Build a Rectifier
Build a half wave rectifier and to examine its properties. An RC filter circuit is then added to produce a DC power supply and the dependence on the RC...
Earth's Magnetic Field
The magnitude and direction of the Earth's magnetic field are measured using a Magnetic Field Sensor mounted on a Rotary Motion Sensor.
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