RC (Resistor and Capacitor) Circuits

Key Questions

• Question #d22cc

  You can see capacitor like a (more or less) strong spring with an extremity bonded to a wall and the other extremity bonded to a mass-block (the resistor) on a (more or less) rough pavement.

  Giuseppe Longo Ragusa · 1 · Jan 19 2015

• What is an RC circuit?
• What is an example of an RC circuit practice problem?
• What are some common mistakes students make with RC circuits?
• In a 20 Vac series RC circuit, if 20 V is read across the resistor and 40 V is measured across the capacitor, what is the applied voltage?
• Is V the reference vector for parallel RC circuits?
• Is I the reference vector for parallel RC circuits?
• As frequency increases, does series and parallel RC impedance decrease?
• In a series RC circuit, is the capacitor's voltage drop in phase with the resistor's voltage drop?
• In a series RC circuit, does the current lag the source voltage?
• In a series RC circuit, does the current lead the source voltage?
• How can I graph an RC circuit?
• In a series RC circuit, does the resistor voltage lag the current?
• What is the effect of increasing the resistance in a series RC circuit?
• Is resistance the same as impedance in an RC circuit?
• In parallel RC circuits, is it true that the larger the value of C, the larger the phase angle?
• In a series RC circuit, does the phase difference between the capacitor and the resistor voltages depend on the values of R and C?
• The hypotenuse of the right triangle of a vector diagram for R and XC, is it the impedance?
• When the resistance is greater than the capacitive reactance in a series RC circuit, what is the value of the phase angle?
• What is true power?
• In a series RC circuit, 12 V(rms) is measured across the resistor and 15 V(rms) is measured across the capacitor. What is the rms source voltage?
• Question #d22cc
• Question #962b9
• Question #ab54a
• Question #d741a
• RLC circuit problems?
• PLEASE HELP!!! Make a general comparison of the RC-time for a 3300uF capacitor with a 1000uF capacitor.?