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In the last video we worked out the step
response of an RC circuit and now we're

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going to look at a real example. This is the step response, the total response to our

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circuit to a step input. And what does
this look like? So I'm going to move down a

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little bit. We'll make up a circuit and
we'll do a real example here.

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Let's say we do a step and the step goes
from 0.2 volts up to say 1.1 volts,

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and let's let R equal 1k ohm,
and let the capacitor equal 4 microfarads.

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So now let's plug these values
over here into our solution and see what

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we get. Now first I'm going to work out
RC. RC is equal to 1 K ohm times 4 microfarads.

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And what is that equal? K is +3
and micro is -6, so 1 times 4 is 4

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and plus 3 minus 6 is times 10 to the
minus 3 and that is in seconds so that's

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equal to 4 milliseconds. Now let's plug
the rest of our values in here. V of T,

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the total response or the step response,
equals V0, 0.2, minus Vs, that's the

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step voltage, 1.1, times e to the -t
over 4 milliseconds plus Vs. Vs

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is 1.1. So I went ahead and I
plotted this using a computer and

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we'll see how close this comes to what
we sketched earlier.

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So here's VT, or the step response, the total response of our RC network to a step voltage.

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The step voltage is here in
rose color, and it goes from 0.2 volts up

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to, oh I got it wrong, 1.2 volts. Let's
change that to the right number, 1.2, 1.2.

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And this is what it looks like. And if
you go back and compare this to what we

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saw what we sketched at the beginning
it'll look pretty similar. So the output

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voltage, the voltage on the capacitor
here,

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starts at V0, which is 0.2. It ends up at Vs, which is 1.2, in this case. And that's the forced

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response up here, and in between it did
that smooth exponential curve.