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Old 15th Apr 2019, 13:25
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Originally Posted by Danial9874
But is there a all purpose resistor that can discharge any capacitor no matter how much is it resistance ?
It depends what you want the circuit to do and any resistor can discharge a capacitor. The value of the resistor will determine the time taken to discharge the capacitor. A large value of resistance will take longer to discharge the capacitor than a small value of resistance.

More detailed information can be found here: https://opentextbc.ca/physicstestboo...nd-capacitors/
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