The charge time is the time it takes the capacitor to charge up to around 99%, reaching its charger's voltage (e.g., a battery). Practically the capacitor can never be 100% charged as the flowing current gets smaller and smaller while reaching full charge, resulting in an exponential curve.
As we know a capacitor when connected to a power supply with take some time to charge. Since all the circuits have some kind of resistance in them, whether it's the resistance of the connecting wires or the internal resistance of the power source such as batteries we can always consider that a resistor is present in series with a capacitor.
The other factor which affects the rate of charge is the capacitance of the capacitor. A higher capacitance means that more charge can be stored, it will take longer for all this charge to flow to the capacitor. The time constant is the time it takes for the charge on a capacitor to decrease to (about 37%).
When a capacitor charges, electrons flow onto one plate and move off the other plate. This process will be continued until the potential difference across the capacitor is equal to the potential difference across the battery. Because the current changes throughout charging, the rate of flow of charge will not be linear.
Practically the capacitor can never be 100% charged as the flowing current gets smaller and smaller while reaching full charge, resulting in an exponential curve. This is why after a number of five multiples of the time constant, we regard the capacitor as fully charged. We'll explain the notion of time constant in the next section.
energy dissipated in charging a capacitorSome energy is s ent by the source in charging a capacitor. A part of it is dissipated in the circuit and the rema ning energy is stored up in the capacitor. In this experim nt we shall try to measure these energies. With fixed values of C and R m asure the current I as a function of time. The ener
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