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1- The two metal objects in Fig. have College
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a 20 V potential difference between them. (a) What is the capacitance of the system? (b)
If the charges are changed to +200 pC and -200 pC, what does the capacitance become?
(c) What does the potential difference become?
(a) The capacitance of the system is
(b) The capacitance is independent of q; it is still 3.5 pF.
(c) The potential difference becomes
2- A 1-megabit computer memory chip contains many 60.0-fF capacitors. Each capacitor
has a plate area of 21.0 × 10-12 m2. Determine the plate separation of such a capacitor
(assume a parallel-plate configuration). The order of magnitude of the diameter of an
atom is 10-10 m = 0.1 nm. Express the plate separation in nanometers.
3- (a) Find the equivalent capacitance for the combination of capacitances shown in Fig.
a, across which potential difference V is applied.
(b) The potential difference applied to the input terminals in Fig. a, is V = 12.5 V. What
is the charge on each capacitor?
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4- Four capacitors are connected as shown in Figure. (a) Find the
equivalent capacitance between points a and b. (b) Calculate the
charge on each capacitor if DVab =15.0 V.
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5- In Fig. the battery has a potential difference of V = 10.0 V and the five capacitors each
have a capacitance of 10.0 µF. What is the charge on (a) capacitor 1 and (b) capacitor 2?
(a) The potential difference across C1 is V1 = 10.0 V. Thus,
q1 = C1V1 = (10.0 μF)(10.0 V) = 1.00 × 10–4 C.
(b) Let C = 10.0 μF. We first consider the three-capacitor
combination consisting of C2 and its two closest neighbors, each of capacitance C. The
equivalent capacitance of this combination is
Also, the voltage drop across this combination is
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Since this voltage difference is divided equally between C2 and the one connected in
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series with it, the voltage difference across C2 satisfies V2 = V/2 = V1/5. Thus
6- Two capacitors, C1 = 25.0 µF and C2 = 5.00 µF, are connected in parallel and charged
with a 100-V power supply. (a) Draw a circuit diagram and calculate the total energy
stored in the two capacitors. (b) What If? What potential difference would be required
across the same two capacitors connected in series in order that the combination stores
the same amount of energy as in (a)? Draw a circuit diagram of this circuit.
7- A parallel-plate capacitor in air has a plate separation of 1.50 cm and a plate area of
25.0 cm2. The plates are charged to a potential difference of 250 V and disconnected from
the source. The capacitor is then immersed in distilled water. Determine (a) the charge on
the plates before and after immersion, (b) the capacitance and potential difference after
immersion, and (c) the change in energy of the capacitor. Assume the liquid is an
insulator.(k=80)
(a)
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(b) Finally
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