Lab11: AC Circuit

Reading time: 10 mins

In this prelab, we will focus on the characteristics of AC waveform.

In contrast with Direct Current (DC) circuit, Alternating Current (AC) circuit has wide applications in electronics and power network. A sinusoidal waveform has output voltage changing with time in either sine function or cosine function. The characteristics used to describe a AC waveform are period, frequency, peak-peak value, rms value.

The following video introduces these concepts.

Now you can proceed to the quiz on Blackboard.