Fiz1002 U4 en
Fiz1002 U4 en
Fiz1002 U4 en
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS PHYSICS 2
RECITATION 4
(CAPACITANCE AND DIELECTRICS/ CURRENT&RESISTANCE and DIRECT
CURRENT CIRCUITS)
1. An air‐filled capacitor consists of two parallel plates, each with an area of 200 cm2, separated
by a distance of 0.4 cm.
a) Calculate the capacitance.
b) If the capacitor had been connected to a 500‐V battery, calculate the charge on each plate,
the stored energy, the electric field between the plates and the energy density of the
capacitor.
c) If air had been replaced with a liquid of dielectric constant =2.6, how much charge would
have been flowed to the capacitor from the 500‐V battery?
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2. For the system of capacitors shown in
Figure 1,
a) Find the total energy stored by the group.
b) When the discharge takes place on C3
capacitor to convert to a conductor, how
much charge and potential on C1 would
have been changed?
Figure 1
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3. A parallel‐plate capacitor has a plate separation of 1.2
cm and a plate area of 0.12 m2. The plates are charged
to a potential difference of 120 V and disconnected
from the source. A dielectric slab having thickness 0.4
cm and a dielectric constant of =2 is inserted exactly
halfway between the plates as shown in Figure 2.
a) What is the capacitance before the dielectric being
placed?
b) Calculate the capacitance after the slab is
introduced using these equations:
Q b
C ve V Vb Va E.ds
V a
c) Find the charge on the plates. Determine the
electric fields in the region of the dielectric and
absence of the dielectric?
Figure 2
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4. A conducting spherical shell has inner radius a and outer radius c. The
space between these two surfaces is filled with a dielectric for which
the dielectric constant is 1 between a and b, and 2 between b and
c (Figure 3). Determine the capacitance of this system.
Figure 3
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5. A parallel‐plate capacitor is constructed by filling
the space between two square plates with blocks
of three dielectric materials, as in Figure 4. You
may assume that d
a) Find an expression for the capacitance of the
device in terms of the plate area A and d , 1 , 2
and 3 .
b) Calculate the capacitance using the values
A 3cm 2 , d 1.5mm, 1 6, 2 3, 3 5 and
V 16V .
Figure 4
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6. A copper wire 2m long and 4mm in diameter carries a current of 6A. If the conductor is copper
with a free charge density of 8.5x1028(1/m3) and a resistivity of ρ=1.6x10‐6 Ωcm, calculate,
a) the current density,
b) the electric field,
c) the resistance,
d) the average drift velocity of free electrons,
e) the power dissipated as heat in this wire. (e=1.6x10−19 C, π=3)
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1. Material with uniform resistivity ρ is formed into
a wedge as shown in Figure 5. Find the resistance
between face A and face B of this wedge.
Figure 5
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2. For the circuit in Figure 6, find
a) the dissipated power for each resistance
(R1, R2 and R3).
b) the power supplied by 1 and 2 generators.
Figure 6
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3. In the circuit the capacitor is uncharged, the switch
S closes at t = 0, as in Figure 7.
a) Express the current I in the circuit as functions
of time and sketch I f (t ) graph.
b) After the circuit becomes the steady‐state, the
switch S is opened. Find the time interval required
for the charge on the capacitor to fall to one‐
second its initial value.
Figure 7
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4. If no charges exist on the capacitor before switch S is
closed t = 0 as in Figure 8.
a) Shortly after the switch S is closed, find the currents
I1, I2 and I3.
b) After the switch S has been closed for a length of
time sufficiently long, find the currents I1, I2 and I3.
c) After the switch S has been closed for long time, find
the potential difference between a and b points.
d) Find the charge on the capacitor after the switch S
has been closed for long time.
Figure 8
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5. In the circuit shown in Figure 9,
a) After the switch S has been closed for a length of
time sufficiently long, find the currents on each
resistance.
b) Find the charges for each capacitors and the
dissipated power on the resistance R2.
c) If the switch S is opened, find the time constant of
the discharging circuit.
d) After the switch S is opened, write the current on
the resistance R1 as a function of time.
Figure 9
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