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written by Wolfgang Christian
content provider: Anne Cox
The RLC Circuit model simulates a resistor, capacitor and inductor in series with either a sinusoidal or square wave voltage source and plots the time dependence of the voltage drops across each element. Users can vary the resistance, capacitance, inductance and source frequency. If Ejs is installed, right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open Ejs Model" from the pop-up menu item allows for editing of the model.

The RLC Circuit model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (Ejs) modeling tool.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the ejs_em_RlcCircuit.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).
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  • RLC Circuit Model Source Code
    Source Code for the RLC Circuit Model program. The source code archive contains an XML representation of the Ejs model. Unzip this archive in your Ejs Workspace to compile and run this model using Ejs.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism
- AC Circuits
= Impedance
= RLC Circuits - AC
- Upper Undergraduate
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Simulation
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- Learners
- Educators
- application/java
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Access Rights: Free access
License: This material is released under the GNU General Public License Version 3. http://www.opensourcephysics.org/misc/copyright.html
Rights Holder: Wolfgang Christian
PACSs: 01.50.hv
07.05.Tp
Keywords: Ejs, OSP, circuits, computational modeling, frequency response, oscillator
Record Cloner: Cloned from ComPADRE Item 9220 October 4, 2009 by Anne Cox
Record Updated: Oct 07, 2009 by Wolfgang Christian
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RLC Circuit Model:

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