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Q: What is the formula of the ripple of a DC power supply derived from AC via a diode-capacitor rectifier?
A: Don't worry about it. Just pretend the diode is always off, so you're discharging a full capacitor in isolation as a standard RC circuit. Use small ripple approximation, and pretend the exponential discharge is linear too.
Q: Stop cheating, what is the *exact* solution for arbitrary loads?
A: Believe me, you don't want that anyway.
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