TRANSIENTS ANALYSIS

After studying this chapter, you will be able to
• explain why transients occur in RC circuits,
• explain why an uncharged capacitor looks like a short circuit when first energized,
• describe why a capacitor looks like an open circuit to steady state dc,
• describe charging and discharging of simple RC circuits with dc excitation,
• determine voltages and currents in simple RC circuits during charging and discharging,
• plot voltage and current transients,
• understand the part that time constants play in determining the duration of transients,
• compute time constants,
• describe the use of charging and discharging waveforms in simple timing applications,
• calculate the pulse response of simple RC circuits,
• solve simple RC transient problems using Electronics Workbench and
• explain why transients occur in RL circuits,
• explain why an inductor looks like an open circuit when first energized,
• compute time constants for RL circuits,
• compute voltage and current transients in RL circuits during the current buildup phase,
• compute voltage and current transients in RL circuits during the current decay phase,
• solve moderately complex RL transient problems using circuit simplification techniques,
• solve RL transient problems using Electronics Workbench and PSpice.