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6a - RL and RC Series Circuit - Matlab

This document describes a study using Matlab to simulate RL and RC series circuits and analyze their transient responses. The simulations involve applying step voltages to the circuits and plotting the current, capacitor voltage, and resistor voltage over various time windows to observe the forced and natural responses. Energy dissipation in the resistor and responses under different sources are also investigated.

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6a - RL and RC Series Circuit - Matlab

This document describes a study using Matlab to simulate RL and RC series circuits and analyze their transient responses. The simulations involve applying step voltages to the circuits and plotting the current, capacitor voltage, and resistor voltage over various time windows to observe the forced and natural responses. Energy dissipation in the resistor and responses under different sources are also investigated.

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Study of RL, RC Series Circuits

Aim: To simulate RL and RC Series circuits and study their transient responses.
Apparatus:

  PC
 Matlab

Simulation Diagrams:

Fig. 1

Fig. 2
Procedure:
1. Open Matlab/Simulink and create a new model.
2. Build the Simulink model of the RL and RC series circuits as shown in Fig. 1 and
Fig. 2, and save the Simulink projects as ‘RL_Series’ and ‘RC_Series’.
3. Go to Simulation  Model configuration parameters in the toolbar provided at
the top of the Simulink window, set the configuration parameters as follows:
a. Variable-step type; Max step size=10e-6; Relative Tolerance=1e-4.
4. Apply step voltage of 100 V to the RC series circuit by switching ‘S1’ to ON
state. Observe and plot current through the circuit (Ic), capacitor voltage (Vc)
and voltage across the resistor (Vr) for time window of 8τ using scope. Plot
current for three different values of τ.
5. Calculate value of ‘τ’ from the current plot and Vc plot, and compare with the
theoretical value of ‘τ’.
6. Plot Vc, Ic and Vr over a time window of 20τ, assuming forced response for first
5τ, followed by natural response for the next 5T and repeat the cycle once
again. Plot Vc, Ic, and Vr on the same graph. Use pulse generator to generate
required number of step voltages, a snapshot of the pulse generator
parameters is provided below in Fig. 3.
7. Repeat step-6 over a time window of 14τ, with forced response for 4τ and
natural response for 3τ in each cycle.

Fig. 3

8. Compare theoretical results with the simulated results for all the plots
9. Repeat steps 3-8 for the RL series circuit.

Questions:
1. How much energy is dissipated in the resistor during natural response of the
circuits? What will be the nature of energy dissipation curve?

2. What will be the response of the RC series circuit if 100 V voltage source is
replaced by a current (through the capacitor) dependent voltage source of
magnitude 5*Ic.

3. What was the most interesting observation during this experiment?

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