This is the setup for the lab we conducted on Monday in which we were to create graphs of a capacitor's charging and discharging times using LoggerPro.
This is the graph of electric potential vs. time that was created during the experiment. It shows that a capacitor charges and discharges not linearly, but asymptotically. It also shows that the charging and discharging levels off at a certain point and that the capacitor will never really reach its maximum charge.
After the experiment was completed, we compared the value of "c" from the fit equation of the discharging graph to a value we calculated from the values of the components used in the experiment. Because the numbers are so small, there is actually quite a large percentage error of about 32% if our calculated value of .01027 is taken to be the "true" value.
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