Lecture (L5-4,5) RC & RL Circuits

Introduction:  In sections 5.2 and 5.3, you learned about capacitors and inductors.  You also learned about the voltages and currents in simple series RC and RL circuits, and very briefly about how they can be used to filter DC (constant) or AC (high frequency) signals.  In sections 5.4 and 5.5, you will learn how to calculate the voltages and currents for more general RC and RL circuits.  NOTE:  These concepts may seem difficult at first, and we are covering them only briefly.  You will spend more time on this in ECE2240 and become more comfortable with them at that time.  

Reference Material:

Textbook Chapters 5.4 (RC) and 5.5 (RL)

Cookbook: RLC_GenRCRLSolnProc.pdf Download Cookbook: RLC_GenRCRLSolnProc.pdf

cookbook RC RL switch circuits.pdf Download cookbook RC RL switch circuits.pdf

Additional Examples: See FILES section, homework solutions (do not share).  Also, there are several books available for checkout in the lab.

Video Lecture:

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