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House & Home Physics

RC Charging (Dimmer / Timer)

V_c = V·(1 − e^(−t/RC))
RC Charging (Dimmer / Timer)

The exponential charge/discharge of a capacitor through a resistor sets the timing in dimmers, delay switches and 555-timer circuits.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).