May 24 - Rectifier smoothing is finished & published.
Now that I have finished teaching further electronics, I've put together a simulation of rectification & capacitor smoothing for use next year. I think that this is the best of its type that I have seen :) This is probably the most interesting piece of maths I've used in a script too. To produce a combination of a sine wave as the input voltage rises, with an exponential decay as the input falls was tricky. This needs to also include the fact that the changing frequency changes the time over which this all happens. Here is the fun part:

for (i=0; i<=400; i++) {

xSmooth = i;
xTop = i;

ySmooth = -(40/3)*((1.41*voltIn)-0.7)*Math.exp((-(i-(Math.floor((i-(0.25*8000*period))/(period*8000))+0.25)*period*8000))/(res*cap*8000));
yRect = -1*((40/3)*(1.41*voltIn)*Math.sin(6.294*i*frequency/8000))+(0.7*40/3);

if (yRect < ySmooth) {
yTop = yRect;
}

else {
yTop = ySmooth;
}

There is one hiccup though - the DC voltage out calculation doesn't calculate in realtime, but only on release. Not sure how to fix it at the moment. That's a job for the future. I also plan on combining this with the current fullwave rectifier object.