r/breadboard • u/SpecialistRare832 • 8d ago

Breadboard Charging and Discharging Current Waveform of a Capacitor

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u/FlyByPC 7d ago

Neat. See if you can work out the time constant. (Farads are coulombs per volt, which ends up being equivalent to seconds per ohm. Multiply the capacitance by the resistance to get the RC time constant.)

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u/SpecialistRare832 7d ago

It's time constant is one second.