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Title Inductive Reactance and Series Impedence of Series RC Circuit Submitted by Nasir Aziz Muhammad Tayyab Kamran Chugtai Noman Tanveer

This lab report summarizes an experiment on the inductive reactance and series impedance of a series RC circuit. The experiment measured the capacitive reactance (Xc) of a capacitor at different frequencies by applying an AC voltage to a circuit containing a resistor and capacitor in series. The results showed that as frequency increased, the measured capacitive reactance decreased, confirming the theoretical relationship defined by Xc = 1/(2πfC).

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Title Inductive Reactance and Series Impedence of Series RC Circuit Submitted by Nasir Aziz Muhammad Tayyab Kamran Chugtai Noman Tanveer

This lab report summarizes an experiment on the inductive reactance and series impedance of a series RC circuit. The experiment measured the capacitive reactance (Xc) of a capacitor at different frequencies by applying an AC voltage to a circuit containing a resistor and capacitor in series. The results showed that as frequency increased, the measured capacitive reactance decreased, confirming the theoretical relationship defined by Xc = 1/(2πfC).

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Lab # 1

Title
Inductive reactance and series impedence
of series RC circuit
Submitted by
Nasir Aziz
Muhammad Tayyab
Kamran Chugtai
Noman Tanveer

Theory :
Capacitance is defined as the opposition offered to the alternating current by the
circuit elements. In case of a capacitor it is called Capacitive Reactance i.e. Xc
which arises due to electric field and electro-static force which prevents current
to flow in the circuit. Like resistance it is also measured in terms of Ohms.
Its mathematical formula is given as:
Xc = C/2f
Where,
F is frequency in Hz
And
C is the capacitance in farads.
As the formula suggests Xc decreases with the increase in the capacitance.

Equipment and materials.

Function Generator.
Resistance 1.5 kilo ohms.
Capacitor.
Digital Multimeter.
Oscilloscope.

Procedure:
Connect the circuit as shown in figure.
Set the function generator to the frequency of 5KHz.
Then, we took the values of Vc and Vr and calculated their vector sums
equal to the voltage of the input source.
First I only took the resistance circuit and calculated the current for it using
DMM.

Then we set the frequency of sinusoidal A.C. at 5 kHz and measured the Vc
and Vr across the capacitor and resistor.
Similarly, we went on increasing the values of frequency by 5khz each time
and calculated capacitive reactance for each value of frequency.
For each step compute the value of capacitive reactance Xc using following
formula .

Using the experimental data we proved that capacitive reactance Xc


decreases with the increase in the frequency.

Circuit Diagram:-

Frequency

Vr
mV
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4

Vc
mV
28
60
80
110
130
160
190
200

I(t)
uA
949
948
946
943
941
936
931
928

Z(t)
Xc(the)
ohms
ohms
29.1
32699
41.1
23129
58.1
16363
76.7
12379
87
10922
108.3
8769
126
7538
135.5
7010

Xc(prac)
32665
23080
16294
12288
10819
8640
7387
6848

Table of values of experiment

Frequency Response of RC Circuit


35000
30000

Reactance ()

25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
1

Frequency (kHz)

Graph between reactance of Capacitorz and frequency

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