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1.

Find the capacitance of an initially uncharged capacitor for which the movement of 3
1015 electrons from one capacitor plate to another produces a 200-V capacitor voltage.

2.What is the change of voltage produced by 8 109 electrons moving from one plate to the
other of an initially charged 10-pF capacitor?

3.Find the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor if the dimensions of each rectangular


plate is 1 by 0.5 cm and the distance between plates is 0.1 mm. The dielectric is air. Also,
find the capacitance if the dielectric is mica instead of air.

4.Find the distance between the plates of a 0.01-F parallel-plate capacitor if the area of
each plate is 0.07 2 and the dielectric is glass.

5.A capacitor has a disk-shaped dielectric of ceramic that has a 0.5-cm diameter and is
0.521 mm. thick. The disk is coated on both sides with silver, this coating being the plates.
Find the capacitance.

6.What are the different capacitances that can be obtained with a 1- and a 3-F capacitor?

7.Find the total capacitance C, of the circuit shown in the figure below

8.A 4-F capacitor, a 6-F capacitor, and an 8-F capacitor are in parallel across a 300-V
source. Find (a) the total capacitance, (b) the magnitude of charge stored by each capacitor,
and (c) the total stored energy.

9.Repeat Prob. 8 for the capacitors in series instead of in parallel, but find each capacitor
voltage instead of each charge stored.

10.A 24-V source and two capacitors are connected in series. If one capacitor has 20-F of
capacitance and has 16 V across it, what is the capacitance of the other capacitor?

11.Find each capacitor voltage in the circuit shown in figure below.

12.A 3-F capacitor charged to 100 V is connected across an uncharged 6-F capacitor. Find
the voltage and also the initial and final stored energies. (33.3 V, 15 mJ, 5 mJ)

13.A 2-F capacitor charged to 150 V and a 1-F capacitor charged to 50 V are connected
together with plates of opposite polarity joined. Find the voltage and the initial and final
stored energies. (83.3 V, 23.8 mJ, 10.4 mJ)

14.If the voltage across a 0.1-F capacitor is 3000t V, find the capacitor current. (0.3 mA)

15.Sketch the waveform of the current that flows through a 2-F capacitor when the
capacitor voltage is as shown in Fig. below. As always, assume associated references
because there is no statement to the contrary

16)Find the time constant of the circuit shown below.

17.How long does a 20-F capacitor charged to 150 V take to discharge through a 3-M
resistor? Also, at what time does the maximum discharge current occur and what is its
value?

18.At =0 s, a 100-V source is switched in series with a 1-k resistor and an uncharged 2-F
capacitor. What are (a) the initial capacitor voltage, (b) the initial current, (c) the initial rate
of capacitor voltage increase, and (d) the time required for the capacitor voltage to reach its
maximum value?

19.Repeat prob. 18 for an initial capacitor charge of 50 C. The positive plate of the
capacitor is toward the positive terminal of the 100-V source.

20.In the circuit shown below, find the indicated voltages and currents at t = 0+ s,
immediately after the switch closes. The capacitors are initially uncharged. Also, find these
voltages and currents a long time after the switch closes.

21.A 2-F capacitor, initially charged to 300V, is discharged through a 270-k resistor. What
is the capacitor voltage at 0.25 second after the capacitor starts to discharge?

22.Closing a switch connects in series a 200-V source, a 2-M resistor, and an uncharged
0.1-F capacitor. Find the capacitor voltage and current at 0.1 second after the switch
closes.

23.For the circuit used in Prob. 22, find the time required for the capacitor voltage to reach
50 V. Then find the time required for the capacitor voltage to increase another 50 V, from 50
to 100 V. Compare times.

24.In the circuit shown below, the switch closes at =0 . Find and i for t > 0 second if
0= 100 V.

25.The switch is closed at t = 0 sec in the circuit shown below. Find i for t > 0 sec. The
capacitor is initially uncharged.

26.After a long time in position 1, the switch in the circuit shown is thrown to position 2 at t
= 0 sec. for a duration of 30 sec. and then returned to position 1 (a) Find the equations for v
for t 0 sec. (b) find v at t = 5 sec. and at t = 40 sec. (c) Make a sketch of v for 0 sec t
80 sec.

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