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Starting electronics<br />

Figure 5.10 A graph for use with your results from the experiment with the<br />

10 nF capacitor in Table 5.3<br />

And yes, the graph is the same shape but is moved along the<br />

horizontal axis by an amount equivalent to a ten-fold increase<br />

in frequency (the capacitor was decreased in value by tenfold,<br />

remember). A similar inverse relationship is caused by<br />

changing the resistor value, too.<br />

Frequency, capacitance and resistance are related in the a.c.<br />

voltage divider by the expression:<br />

where f is the corner frequency. For the first voltage divider,<br />

with a capacitance of 10 nF and a resistance of 1.5 kΩ, the<br />

corner frequency is:<br />

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