Confused dude, and by orders of magnitude, dude

[Bill Layer]

Hi Scott, All,

>If the time constant of an RC circuit is one second, how can the frequency
>be 1/6 hz?  Isn't that 1 hz?  Isn't freq the reciprocal of the time
>constant?

The time constant is 1 second, which means it requires 1 second to charge,
and 1 second to discharge, to complete a full cycle.

Since we have a complete cycle every 2 seconds, I would say the frequency
is 0.5Hz. based on the values given. 





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