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 8b
The peak current to and from a capacitor is 10 mA. What is the peak current if the emf peak voltage is doubled (at the original frequency)?
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Understand the relationship between the current and voltage in a capacitor. The current through a capacitor is given by the formula: , where is the current, is the capacitance, and is the rate of change of voltage.
For an AC circuit, the voltage across the capacitor varies sinusoidally, and the current is proportional to the rate of change of this voltage. The peak current is related to the peak voltage by the formula: , where is the angular frequency, is the capacitance, and is the peak voltage.
Notice that the peak current is directly proportional to the peak voltage. If the peak voltage is doubled, the peak current will also double, assuming the capacitance and frequency remain constant.
Given that the original peak current is 10 mA, doubling the peak voltage will result in a new peak current that is twice the original value.
Conclude that the new peak current can be calculated by multiplying the original peak current by 2. This step completes the solution conceptually.

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