Experiment Ed-07

Charge on a Capacitor


Description: A capacitor is charged with a battery and discharged through a ballistic galvanometer. The time constant of the discharge can be changed by changing the value of the resistor.

 

Bottom: switch; Top (left to right): battery, capacitor, variable resistor, galvanometer.

 

Diagram of the system wiring

 

 

Materials: battery, capacitor, ballistic galvanometer, mirror, resistor, switch.

 

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