Discharging a Capacitor
 

Discharging a Capacitor problem 8


A capacitor of capacitance and a resistor of resistance are connected as shown in the figure below.




Initially, the capacitor is charged and the switch is open. The switch is closed at time . The graph below shows the variation with of the charge on the capacitor.




Use the graph above to show that the time constant of the circuit in the figure is .


 

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