Exercise 6 Analog Measurements Using the Oscilloscope

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Exercise 6 Analog Measurements Using the Oscilloscope Introduction: The Purpose of this Lab is to learn the basic operation and use of an oscilloscope. From the reading materials we know that in most applications the scope shows a graph of voltage (vertical axis) versus time (horizontal axis). This display presents more information at a glance than is shown by a multimeter. You can observe things such as how much of a signal is DC and how much is AC, how much is noise, and what frequency it is. We hope to see this proven by our lab measurements. Parts List: 2k ohm resistor, 1k ohm resistor, jumper wires Function generator, Oscilloscope, Digital Multimeter, D/A Trainer Discussion: In the first part of the Lab we used Multisim to build and test the circuit virtually. First we place a power source of 5V p-p or 1.7675VRMS (Vp-p/2 x 0.707 = VRMS) at 700Hz. We then place a 2k ohm resistor (R1) horizontally and a 1k ohm resistor (R2) vertically. We place an analog ground and connect the circuit from the source through the resistors and ground as shown below. [pic] We then place and connect the virtual oscilloscope across R1 and R2 as show in the figure above. We also place a voltmeter across our power source and across R2, also shown above. We open the oscilloscope window to view the graph and run the simulation for a moment to collect data, shown below. [pic] Using the oscilloscope is not as precise as a digital measure as you must visually count the lines or boxes to estimate the values. This is the cause of the small discrepancy in the metered values shown and the measured values derived from the oscilloscope. To derive the Hz we count the squares of one full cycle then multiply that number by the time division setting then using the formula where frequency is the inverse of time we arrive

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