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CAPACITORS

The document discusses parallel plate capacitors and capacitor circuits. It includes questions about calculating the capacitance and charge of individual capacitors based on their plate dimensions and dielectric properties. It also includes questions about finding the equivalent capacitance of capacitor circuits connected in series and parallel configurations.

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CAPACITORS

The document discusses parallel plate capacitors and capacitor circuits. It includes questions about calculating the capacitance and charge of individual capacitors based on their plate dimensions and dielectric properties. It also includes questions about finding the equivalent capacitance of capacitor circuits connected in series and parallel configurations.

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ASSIGNMENT ON CAPACITORS

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2. A capacitor consisting of two parallel plates 0.5 mm apart and each effective area 500 cm is connected to a 100 V battery. Calculate

(i) the capacitance of the capacitor and (ii) the charge on each plate.

3. Find the length of the paper used in a parallel plate capacitor of capacitance 2μF if the dielectric constant of the paper is 2.5 and its

width and thickness are 50 mm and 0.05 mm, respectively.

4. The plates of a parallel plate capacitor are separated by a distance of 0.5 cm. What must be the plate area if the capacitance of the

capacitor is to be 2F?

5. A parallel plate capacitor has circular plates of 8.2 cm radius and 1.3 mm separation. What is the capacitance of the capacitor? If a p.d.

of 120 V is applied across the plates, what charge will appear on the plates?

6. A parallel plate capacitor has plates 0.15 mm apart, a plate area of 0.1m2 and a dielectric of relative permittivity 3. If the charge on

capacitor plates is 0.5 μC, find (i) electric flux density, (ii) p.d. between plates, and (iii) electric field intensity.

7. Two capacitors of capacitance 2 μF and 4 μF, respectively, are connected in series. A d.c. potential difference of 900V is applied to this

series combination. Find p.d. across each capacitor.

8. How can three capacitors of capacitance 3μF, 6μF and 9μF respectively be connected to have a capacitance of 11μF?

9. Three capacitors of 2μF, 3μF and 6μF, respectively are connected in series across 500V d.c. supply. Find the charge and p.d. on each

capacitor.

10. Calculate the capacitance between points A and B in Fig

11. In the circuit shown in Fig. below, find the equivalent capacitance between points A and B.

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12. In the circuit shown in Fig, find the equivalent capacitance between points A and B

13. In the circuit shown in Fig., find the equivalent capacitance between points A and B.

14. How will you combine four capacitors, each of 1μF, to have a net capacitance of 0.75μF?
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15. A variable air capacitor has 11 movable plates and 12 stationary plates. The area of each plate is 0.0015 m and the separation

between opposite plates is 0.001m. Determine the maximum capacitance of this variable capacitor.

16. Calculate the number of sheets of tin foil and mica for a capacitor of 0.33 μF capacitance if the area of each sheet of tin foil is 82 cm2,

the mica sheets are 0.2 mm thick and have relative permittivity 5.

17. A 600 pF capacitor is charged by a 200Vsupply. It is then disconnected from the supply and is connected to another uncharged 600

pF capacitor. How much electrostatic energy is lost in the process?

18. An uncharged capacitor is connected to a battery. Show that half the energy supplied by the

the battery is lost as heat while charging the capacitor.


19. Two capacitors are connected in parallel, and the energy stored is 18J when a potential difference of 6000 V is applied across the

combination. When the same capacitors are connected in series, the stored energy is 4J for the same potential difference. What are the

individual capacitances?

20. The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor is 50 pF, and the distance between the plates is 4mm. It is charged to 200V, and then the

charging battery is removed. Now a dielectric slab

(K = 4) of thickness 2mm is placed between the plates. Calculate (i) final charge on each plate, (ii) final potential difference between

plates (iii) final energy in the capacitor.

21. An ebonite plate (K = 3), 6 mm thick, is introduced between the parallel plates of a capacitor of plate area 2 × 10–2 m2 and plate

separation 0.01m. Find the capacitance.

22. A parallel-plate capacitor having a plate area of 100 cm2 and separation of 1.0 mm holds a charge of 0.12 μC when connected to a

120 V battery. Find the dielectric constant of the material filling the gap.

23. A slab of material of dielectric constant K has the same area as the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor but has a thickness of 3d/4,

where d is the separation of the plates. How is the capacitance changed when the slab is inserted between the plates?

24. Two parallel-plate capacitors, each of capacitance 40 μF, are connected in series. The space between the plates of the capacitors is

filled with a dielectric material with a dielectric constant of 4. Find the equivalent capacitance of the system.

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