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Lab 13: Critical Damped Response of Source free

RLC Parallel Circuit
OBJECTIVE:
To find the critically damped response of source free RLC parallel circuit using Pspise.
EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:

Voltage source
Inductor
Oscilloscope
Different value resistor
Switch
Capacitor

THEORY AND PROCEDURE:

Parallel RLC circuits find many practical applications, notably in communications networks and
filter designs.
Consider the parallel RLC circuit

Applying KCL at the top node gives

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By solving these equations we get the following result, the characteristic equation are

A more compact way of expressing the roots is

There are three possible solutions, depending on whether > 0 , = 0, or < 0 . Let us
consider these cases separately
Critically Damped Case ( = 0):
For = , L = 4R2C. The roots are real and equal so that the response is
Vn ( t )=( A 1+ A 2 t ) e t (Critically damped)
PROCEDURE:
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At t<0, inductor is short and capacitor is open circuit to dc.

Then find i(o) and v(0).
At t>o, circuit becomes source free.
Find the roots s1 and s2.
Finally find v(t) for critically damped case across capacitor.
t

V ( t ) = ( A 1+ A 2 t ) e

(Critically damped)

RLC PARALLEL CIRCUIT: (Fig 1)

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GRAPH

Critical damped Response of source free RLC parallel circuit

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