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Let's say we have the following circuit:

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The generator in the circuit has sinusoidal waveform \$u_g(t)=\sin\omega t\$.

Other known values: \$ L=0.25H\\ R=1\Omega \\ C=0.5F \\ \omega=1 \frac{rad}{s} \\ k=1\$

Before the P2 switch is closed, we had steady state in the circuit, at the same time, switch P1 was in the position 1. At one of the moments, when voltage on capacitor is at its maximum, switch P2 closes and switch P1 goes to the position 2. Determine the expression for capacitor voltage after that moment.

I know that I need to analyze this circuit in steady state before switches change their position in order to find initial values for the capacitors and inductors.

Basically, what I need here is the expression for the current in the circuit and voltage on \$C\$. When I consider this circuit in the laplace domain, it is the same as it is here, since there is no energy in \$C\$ and $L\$ before the first steady state.

Since generator is sinusoidal, we have that \$U_g(S)=\frac{\omega}{s^2+\omega^2}\$

Furthermore, if we look at the circuit, we have that \$U_g(S)=I(s)(Ls-kLs+\frac{1}{Cs} + R + Ls -kLs)\$

Since k=1, this becomes: \$U_g(S)=I(s)(R + \frac{1}{Cs} )\$

From here, we have:

\$ I(S)=\frac{U_g(S)}{R + \frac{1}{Cs}} =\frac{\omega}{s^2+\omega^2}\frac{1}{R + \frac{1}{Cs}} \$

and then since \$U_c(S)=\frac{I(S)}{Cs}\$ we have

\$U_c(S)=\frac{\omega}{s^2+\omega^2}\frac{1}{Cs(R + \frac{1}{Cs})} =\frac{\omega}{s^2+\omega^2}\frac{1}{RCs + 1} \$

Now, based on values we have, these two expressions become:

\$I(S)=\frac{1}{s^2+1}\frac{1}{1 + \frac{2}{s}}=\frac{1}{s^2+1}\frac{s}{s + 2} \$

\$U_c(S)=\frac{1}{s^2+ 1}\frac{1}{\frac{s}{2} + 1} =\frac{1}{s^2+ 1}\frac{2}{s+2} \$

Now, when I decompose these two expressions using partial fraction decomposition I end up with:

\$I(s)=\frac{2}{5} \frac{s}{s^2+1} + \frac{1}{5} \frac{1}{s^2+1} -\frac{2}{5} \frac{1}{s+2}\$

\$U_c(s)=-\frac{2}{5} \frac{s}{s^2+1} + \frac{4}{5} \frac{1}{s^2+1} +\frac{2}{5} \frac{1}{s+2}\$

Which means that \$u_c(t)=(-\frac{2}{5}\cos t + \frac{4}{5}\sin t +\frac{2}{5}e^{-j2t})u(t)\$

\$u(t)\$ is heaviside function

Now, how am I supposed to determine when is this \$u_c(t)\$ maximum value, I mean first derivative method could be an option but it seems too complicated in this particular example due to the fact that all these functions can be expressed as exponentials with different arguments so finding maximum would be quite messy job.

Usually, with problems like this, I always ended up with a single sine (or cosine) and the maximum could be determined by inspection easily, so I am thinking that I maybe made a mistake somewhere. So I am wondering what i did wrong here.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Where is L in the equation ? Disappeared ? Not useful ? \$\endgroup\$
    – Antonio51
    Commented Sep 11, 2021 at 8:26

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