King Faisal University

College of Engineering

Created by:
Saleh Al-Moosa 216010573
Hassan Al-Salameen 218024044
Tareq alblowi 218029442
Abdalluh alknani 218036059
Hassan alzaylaee 218035996

Lab Instructor:
Othman abdulmohsen

Experiment name: charging and discharging RC circuit and RC time

constant t.
Date of performing experiment: 7-11-2021
Date of submission: 14-11-2021
I. Objectives
1-The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the charging and
discharging behaviour of in series RC circuit.
2-To measure the time constant r for a charging and discharging RC circuit.
II. Apparatus:
DC power supply, DMM, capacitor, resistance, dual switch, stop watch, and
banana plug wires..

III. Theory

1- Charging
The RC circuitconsists of a capacitor C and a resistance R connected in
series to a voltage source Ƹ, at time zero the capacitor is uncharged.
When the switch is closed, charge will start accumulating on the
capacitor hence C starts charging.
2- Discharging
3- In this part of the experiment we will consider the charged capacitor C
with an initial potential difference Ƹo at the time we turn the switch off
and turn the switch 2 on so the initial charge will be Q0=C Eo . When S2
is on the initially charged capacitor C starts to discharge through the
resistance according to the relation

IV. Experimental procedure and data analysis

R=93800 Ohm c=34uf t=RC=3.2s
Capacitor charging capacitor discharging
time V(t) (Ƹ-v(t))/ Ƹ ln{(Ƹ- time V(t) Ln{V(t)/
v(t))/ Ƹ} Ƹ}
5 2.06 0.56 0.58 0 Ƹo=4.72 0
 10 3.2 0.32 1.14 5 2.9 -0.49
15 3.85 0.18 1/71 10 1.81 -0.96
20 4.16 0.12 2.12 15 1 -1.55
20 0.51 -2.22
charging

Y-Values
25

20

15

10

0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5

Slop=t=8.92
Error=179%
Discharging

Y-Values
25

20

15

10

0
-2.5 -2 -1.5 -1 -0.5 0

Slop=t=8.47
Error=79%

Conclusion:
In conclusion , we measure the time constant t t=RC and the slop