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ALTERNATING CURRENT - NCATT

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Operation - Half-Wave Rectifier• A diode placed in series with an AC source and a loadresistor (R L ) will have both forward and reverse biasapplied with every cycle• A forward biased diode allows current to flow, so wehave a pulse of DC in the output• R L represents all of the circuits that will draw currentfrom the rectifierAC INPUTT11:1 CR1+++ OUTPUTVOLTAGERL–––0V

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