Experiment 11: AC Circuit Capacitor

Introduction: For this lab, Professor Mason hooked up a circuit into a digital oscilloscope to give a visualization of how AC voltage behaves within a capacitor.

The sinusoidal wave heading into the capacitor

It is observed that the sine wave changes when the frequency changes.

For this section, a AC voltage supply was hooked onto a capacitor. The capacitor was found to be 3.3 microfarads. It is still unknown how we obtained that value.