Periodically switched RL circuit

ID: periodically-switched-rl-circuit

An RL circuit alternating for equal intervals between zero drive and constant drive has a unique attracting periodic electric current when . Write and . Sampling just before each zero-drive interval gives the recurrence relation . Subtracting its fixed point yields . Thus the limiting upper and lower electric currents are and ; convergence is geometric. This gives a simple exact ripple estimate for a periodically driven inductor.

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