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Circuits with capacitors and inductors, college study notes - Introducing when a circuit has capacitors and inductors, Study notes of Electrical Circuit Analysis

Study Material. Introducing when a circuit has capacitors and inductors other than resistors and sources, the impedance concept will be applied. Circuits with Capacitors and Inductors, Connexions Web site. http://cnx.org/content/m0023/2.12/, Jun 4, 2009. Circuits, Capacitors, Inductors, Don, Johnson, Equation, Elements, Explicit, Voltage, Implicit, Relation, Parallel, Combination, Impedance, Same, Complex, Numbers, Physics, Charles, Steinmetz, Engineering.

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Connexions module: m0023 1
Circuits with Capacitors and
Inductors
Don Johnson
This work is produced by The Connexions Project and licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution License
Abstract
Introducing when a circuit has capacitors and inductors other than resistors and sources, the impedance
concept will be applied.
vin +
R
Cvout
+
Figure 1:
A simple
RC
circuit.
Let's consider a circuit having something other than resistors and sources. Because of KVL, we know
that
vin =vR+vout
. The current through the capacitor is given by
i=Cdvout
dt
, and this current equals that
passing through the resistor. Substituting
vR=Ri
into the KVL equation and using the
v-i
relation for the
capacitor, we arrive at
RC dvout
dt +vout =vin
(1)
The input-output relation for circuits involving energy storage elements takes the form of an ordinary
dierential equation, which we must solve to determine what the output voltage is for a given input. In
contrast to resistive circuits, where we obtain an
explicit
input-output relation, we now have an
implicit
relation that requires more work to obtain answers.
At this point, we could learn how to solve dierential equations. Note rst that even nding the dierential
equation relating an output variable to a source is often very tedious. The parallel and series combination
rules that apply to resistors don't directly apply when capacitors and inductors occur. We would have to slog
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Connexions module: m0023 1

Circuits with Capacitors and

Inductors

Don Johnson

This work is produced by The Connexions Project and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License †

Abstract Introducing when a circuit has capacitors and inductors other than resistors and sources, the impedance concept will be applied.

vin

R

C vout

Figure 1: A simple RC circuit.

Let's consider a circuit having something other than resistors and sources. Because of KVL, we know that vin = vR + vout. The current through the capacitor is given by i = C dv dtout , and this current equals that passing through the resistor. Substituting vR = Ri into the KVL equation and using the v-i relation for the capacitor, we arrive at

RC dvout dt

  • vout = vin (1)

The input-output relation for circuits involving energy storage elements takes the form of an ordinary dierential equation, which we must solve to determine what the output voltage is for a given input. In contrast to resistive circuits, where we obtain an explicit input-output relation, we now have an implicit relation that requires more work to obtain answers. At this point, we could learn how to solve dierential equations. Note rst that even nding the dierential equation relating an output variable to a source is often very tedious. The parallel and series combination rules that apply to resistors don't directly apply when capacitors and inductors occur. We would have to slog

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our way through the circuit equations, simplifying them until we nally found the equation that related the source(s) to the output. At the turn of the twentieth century, a method was discovered that not only made nding the dierential equation easy, but also simplied the solution process in the most common situation. Although not original with him, Charles Steinmetz^1 presented the key paper describing the impedance approach in 1893. It allows circuits containing capacitors and inductors to be solved with the same methods we have learned to solved resistor circuits. To use impedances, we must master complex numbers. Though the arithmetic of complex numbers is mathematically more complicated than with real numbers, the increased insight into circuit behavior and the ease with which circuits are solved with impedances is well worth the diversion. But more importantly, the impedance concept is central to engineering and physics, having a reach far beyond just circuits.

(^1) http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/139.html

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