A 0.30 μF capacitor is connected across an AC generator that produces a peak voltage of 10 V. What is the peak current to and from the capacitor if the emf frequency is 100 Hz?
Ch 32: AC Circuits
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Capitolo 32, Problema 8a
The peak current to and from a capacitor is 10 mA. What is the peak current if the emf frequency is doubled?
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Understand the relationship between the current through a capacitor and the frequency of the applied emf. The current through a capacitor is given by the formula: where is the current, is the capacitance, is the angular frequency, and is the peak voltage.
Recall that the angular frequency is related to the frequency by the equation: . Doubling the frequency will also double the angular frequency .
Since the current is directly proportional to the angular frequency , doubling the frequency will result in the current also being doubled.
The initial peak current is given as 10 mA. Therefore, if the frequency is doubled, the new peak current will be twice the initial peak current.
Conclude that the new peak current can be calculated as . Perform this multiplication to find the final value if needed.

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