Physics307L F09:People/Gooden/Oscilloscope

The Fall time that I found using AC coupling was t~=52 ms I measured the fall time using the coursor function on the oscillscope. The measure function can be used also but I found it more difficult to use. With the coursor I selected to read off Ch2 and it gives to 'coursors' and using one to measure the max voltage of the signal and then use the other to find 10% of that voltage and see where the decaying portion intersected the coursor line. Then I counted the divisions between the edge of the falling/ decaying graph and where it intersected that second coursor. That was the fall time. I learned how to calculate frequency from the period, or at least it became more clear how to do so. I did not explore anything outside of the standard lab procedure due to time constraints. Possibly more time to play with the oscillscopes and understand how they opperate more.
 * 1) Brief summary of what you did (linking to the lab manual page is OK)
 * 2) Add links to all wiki pages that contain your notebook entries.  This is likely only one page.
 * 3) Report your value for the fall time using AC coupling.
 * 1) * Include error bars!
 * 2) * Explain how you measured this (briefly)
 * 1) What did you learn?
 * 1) * It's OK if you didn't learn anything. But include things you are still confusing.
 * 2) What did you explore outside of the standard lab procedure?  Anything interesting?
 * 1) What could make the lab better next year?