A resistor–capacitor circuit (RC circuit), or RC filter or RC network, is an electric circuit composed of resistors and capacitors driven by a voltage or current source. A first order RC circuit is composed of one resistor and one capacitor and is the simplest type of RC circuit.
RC circuits can be used to filter a signal by blocking certain frequencies and passing others. The four most common RC filters are the high-pass filter, low-pass filter, band-pass filter, and band-stop filt.
IntroductionThere are three basic, linear passive lumped analog circuit components: the resistor (R), capacitor (C) and inductor (L). These may be combined in: the RC circuit, the RL circuit, the LC circuit and the RLC circuit with the abbreviations indicating which components are used. These circuits, between them, exhibit a large number of important types of behaviour that are fundamental to much of analog electronics. In particular, they are able to act as passive filters. This article considers the RC circuit, in both series and parallel as shown in the diagrams.
This article relies on knowledge of the complex impedance representation of capacitors and on knowledge of the frequency domain representation of signals.
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RC Circuits
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