Voltage Divider and Bridge Circuit

Background Information

In earlier experiments, various circuits were built. Specifically, the voltage divider (left), the simple diode circuit with series resistor (middle), and a capacitor circuit with series resistor (right) were already described, s. figure 1. In principle, the last two circuits and many more can also be understood as voltage dividers. For this reason, the voltage divider is a central circuit in electrical engineering and is often called a half-bridge.

Both half-bridge and full-bridge are used for rectification in this experiment.