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Electrical Engineering: Know It All
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Electrical Engineering: Know It All

by Clive Maxfield, John Bird, Tim Williams, Walt Kester, Dan Bensky
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1128 pages
25h 6m
English
Newnes
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Chapter 8

Transients and Laplace Transforms

John Bird

8.1 Introduction

A transient state will exist in a circuit containing one or more energy storage elements (i.e., capacitors and inductors) whenever the energy conditions in the circuit change, until the new steady state condition is reached. Transients are caused by changing the applied voltage or current, or by changing any of the circuit elements; such changes occur due to opening and closing switches. In this chapter, such equations are developed analytically by using both differential equations and Laplace transforms for different waveform supply voltages.

8.2 Response of R-C Series Circuit to a Step Input

8.2.1 Charging a Capacitor

A series R-C circuit is shown in Figure 8.1(a).

Figure ...

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