Remote experiment on time domain phenomena In RLC circuits and their characterization

Abstract

Knowledge of general RLC circuit is one of the basic block of physics lessons at high schools and lower levels of universities. To determine the values of the individual circuit components is in general not straightforward. In the paper we want to show, how the transient response of a RLC circuit may provide information enough for the circuit components determination. First, we describe the basic properties of the RLC circuit and its mathematical description. Next, we focus on the created remote experiment for the elucidation of transient phenomena in the RLC circuit for the students. At the end of the paper we describe the workflow with the remote experiment in teaching process and show, how the parameters of the circuit may be determined from the measurements. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.