Capacitors - RC Time

 

1) Capacitors take time to charge and discharge, according to the amount of current.

2) We can control the charge/discharge time of capacitors using resistors.

3) Charge time (to 63.2% of supply voltage) and discharge time (to 36.8% of supply voltage) is nicely equal to R*C. Time is in seconds.

4) RC Time allows us to control the rate that things happen in circuits, which turns out to be very useful.

 

 

 

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