Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 103 views

    Worksheet On Capacitors

    Uploaded by

    Intiser Rahman
    This document provides information about capacitors and capacitor circuits: (1) It describes a capacitor with a 20% tolerance and calculates that it can hold a maximum charge of 0.2C and store a maximum energy of 1.5J. (2) It shows a circuit diagram of a capacitor charging and discharging through a switch and resistor, and asks the student to describe what happens when the switch position changes. (3) It provides data from another capacitor circuit experiment and asks the student to analyze the circuit's time constant, charge/discharge behavior, and model the data.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Worksheet On Capacitors

    Uploaded by

    Intiser Rahman
    103 views4 pages
    This document provides information about capacitors and capacitor circuits: (1) It describes a capacitor with a 20% tolerance and calculates that it can hold a maximum charge of 0.2C and store a maximum energy of 1.5J. (2) It shows a circuit diagram of a capacitor charging and discharging through a switch and resistor, and asks the student to describe what happens when the switch position changes. (3) It provides data from another capacitor circuit experiment and asks the student to analyze the circuit's time constant, charge/discharge behavior, and model the data.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    Worksheet on Capacitors

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document provides information about capacitors and capacitor circuits: (1) It describes a capacitor with a 20% tolerance and calculates that it can hold a maximum charge of 0.2C and store a maximum energy of 1.5J. (2) It shows a circuit diagram of a capacitor charging and discharging through a switch and resistor, and asks the student to describe what happens when the switch position changes. (3) It provides data from another capacitor circuit experiment and asks the student to analyze the circuit's time constant, charge/discharge behavior, and model the data.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    103 views4 pages

    Worksheet On Capacitors

    Uploaded by

    Intiser Rahman
    This document provides information about capacitors and capacitor circuits: (1) It describes a capacitor with a 20% tolerance and calculates that it can hold a maximum charge of 0.2C and store a maximum energy of 1.5J. (2) It shows a circuit diagram of a capacitor charging and discharging through a switch and resistor, and asks the student to describe what happens when the switch position changes. (3) It provides data from another capacitor circuit experiment and asks the student to analyze the circuit's time constant, charge/discharge behavior, and model the data.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 4
    At a glance
    Powered by AI
    The passages discuss capacitors and their properties like capacitance, potential difference, and time constant. Circuits with capacitors and switches are used to investigate these concepts.

    When the switch is moved, the current initially rises sharply and then decays exponentially towards zero as the capacitor charges.

    The time constant of a capacitor depends on its capacitance and the resistance in the circuit. A larger capacitance or smaller resistance results in a larger time constant.

    Worksheet on Capacitors

    A student needs to order a capacitor for a project. He sees this picture on a web site accompanied by this
    information: capacitance tolerance ± 20%.
    Taking the tolerance into account, show that

    (a) the maximum charge a capacitor of this type can hold is about 0.2 C [2]

    (b) the maximum energy it can store is about 1.5 J [2]

    June 11 Question 13

    A student sets up the circuit as shown in the diagram

    (a) (i) She moves the switch S from X to Y.


    Describe what happens to the capacitor [2]

    (ii) On the axes below, sketch a graph to show how the current
    in the ammeter varies with time. Take t = 0 as the time
    when the switch touches Y. Indicate typical values of
    current and time

    (iii) Describe and explain what happens when the switch is


    moved back to X [3]
    (b) The student wants to use this circuit to produce a short time delay of 0.20 s after the switch moves from X
    to Y. Calculate the value of the potential difference across the capacitor after this time interval.
    [3]

    (c) A particular racing car has a mass of 800 kg and is travelling at 30 m s–1. It uses an ultracapacitor of
    capacitance 2600 F charging to a potential difference of 2.5 V. Calculate the ratio of the energy stored
    on the fully charged ultracapacitor to the kinetic energy of the car.
    [3]

    June 14 Question 18

    A student is investigating capacitors. She uses the circuit below to check the capacitance of a capacitor labelled
    2.2 μF which has a tolerance of ± 30%.

    The switch flicks between contacts, X and Y, so that the capacitor charges and discharges f times per second

    The capacitor must discharge fully through the resistor. Explain why 400Hz is a suitable value for f [3]

    June 12 Question 16
    A student was investigating the charge and discharge of a capacitor. He set up the following circuit

    (a) Calculate the time constant for the circuit [2]

    (b) The student wanted to plot a current-time graph as the capacitor charged, but found that the current changed too
    rapidly for him to take readings. Instead, he modelled the experiment using a spreadsheet. The switch was closed
    at time t= 0 s. V is the potential difference across the capacitor

    Explain how the value in cell B5 is calculated [2]


    (c) Some of the data from the spreadsheet has been plotted on a graph of current I against time t

    (i) Plot the missing points and draw a line of best fit
    [2]

    (ii) Use the graph to determine a second value for the time
    constant [2]

    (iii) Suggest how the student might change his spreadsheet to


    give a more accurate model of the charging of the capacitor

    [1]

    (d) An alternative method of determining the time constant is to use a straight line graph. State and explain the
    variables that the student should plot and how he should determine the time constant from this graph [3]

    JAN 2015 QUESTION 15

    You might also like