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Circuit Analysis: Resistors & Capacitors

This document contains sample questions and answers from a tutorial on circuits and oscillations. It includes 5 questions about calculating voltages, currents, charges and time constants in circuits containing resistors and capacitors connected in various configurations. Diagrams of the circuit setup are provided for each question. The questions involve determining equivalent resistances, currents through individual resistors, voltages across components, and charge and discharge behavior of capacitors over time.

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Circuit Analysis: Resistors & Capacitors

This document contains sample questions and answers from a tutorial on circuits and oscillations. It includes 5 questions about calculating voltages, currents, charges and time constants in circuits containing resistors and capacitors connected in various configurations. Diagrams of the circuit setup are provided for each question. The questions involve determining equivalent resistances, currents through individual resistors, voltages across components, and charge and discharge behavior of capacitors over time.

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Tutorial 4

PH1102 /CY1302/SM2-16B - Fields & Oscillations


Self-practice questions
1. Consider the circuit in Figure 1.
(a) Find the equivalent resistance between points a and b.
(b) A potential difference of 34.0 V is applied between points a and b. Calculate
the current in each resistor.

Figure 1: Circuit with resistors.


Ans: (a) 17.1

, (b) 1.99 A for the 4.00

and 9.00

resistors, 1.17 A for

the 7.00 resistor, 0.818 A for the 10.0 resistor.


2. The ammeter shown in Figure 2 reads 2.00 A. Find I1, I2 and . (Ignore the resistor
of the ammeter)

Figure 2: Circuit with resistors and ammeter.


Ans: 0.714 A, 1.29 A, 12.6 V.
Questions to be discussed during tutorial
1. Consider the circuit shown in Figure 3. Find
1

(a) The potential difference between points a and b.


(b) The current in the 20.0- resistor.

Figure 3: Circuit with resistors.


Ans: (a) 5.68 V, (b) 227 mA.
2. Determine the current in each branch of the circuit shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4
Ans: 846 mA, 462 mA, 1.31 A.

3. For the network shown in Figure 5, show that the resistance

Rab=

27
.
17

Figure 5
Hint: If you wish, you may consider this circuit being connected to a battery
with emf

at the ends a and b . Then, the effective resistance is

, where
I

is the total current passing through the circuit from a to

b .

4. The circuit in Figure 6 contains two resistors, R1 = 2.00 k and R2 = 3.00 k,


and two capacitors, C1 = 2.00 F and C2 = 3.00 F, connected to a battery with
emf = 120 V. No charge is on either capacitor before switch S is closed.
Determine the charges q1 and q2 on capacitors C1 and C2 as functions of time,
after the switch is closed.

Figure 6: Circuit with capacitors and resistors.


[Suggestion: First reconstruct the circuit so that it becomes a simple RC circuit
containing a single resistor and single capacitor in series, connected to the

battery, and then determine the total charge

stored in the equivalent

circuit.]

Ans: 240 1e

1000t
6

C, 360 1e

1000t
6

C.

5. The circuit in Figure 7 has been connected for a long time.


(a) What is the voltage across the capacitor? (After a long time, no charge flows
towards or away from the capacitor plates.)
(b) If the battery is disconnected, how long does it take the capacitor to discharge
to one tenth of its initial voltage?

Figure 7
Ans: (a) 6.00 V, (b) 8.29

s.

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