{"id":285401,"date":"2016-09-27T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=dacba617b4878e953185d8cbbbde1270"},"modified":"2016-09-27T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:00:00","slug":"measuring-the-rc-time-constant-with-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=285401","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the RC time constant with Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this work we use the Arduino UNO R3 open source hardware platform to assemble an experimental<br \/>\napparatus for the measurement of the time constant of an RC circuit. With adequate programming, the<br \/>\nArduino is used as a signal generator, a data acquisition system and a basic signal visualisation<br \/>\ntool. Theoretical calculations are compared with direct observations from an analogue oscilloscope.<br \/>\nData processing and curve fitting is performed on a spreadsheet. The results obtained for the six RC<br \/>\ntest circuits are within the expected interval of values defined by the tolerance of the components.<br \/>\nThe hardware and software prove to be adequate to the proposed measurements and therefore adaptable<br \/>\nto a laboratorial teaching and learning context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this work we use the Arduino UNO R3 open source hardware platform to assemble an experimental<br \/>\napparatus for the measurement of the time constant of an RC circuit. With adequate programming, the<br \/>\nArduino is used as a signal generator, a data acquisi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}