A homemade capacitor is constructed of 2 sheets of aluminum foil with an area of 2.00 square meters, separated by paper, 0.05 mm thick, of the same area and a dielectric constant of 3.7. The homemade capacitor is connected in series with a 100,00- ε resistor, a switch, and a 6.00-V voltage source, (a) What is the RC time constant of the circuit? (b) What is the initial current through the circuit, when the switch is closed? (c) How long does it take the current to reach one third of its initial value?
A homemade capacitor is constructed of 2 sheets of aluminum foil with an area of 2.00 square meters, separated by paper, 0.05 mm thick, of the same area and a dielectric constant of 3.7. The homemade capacitor is connected in series with a 100,00- ε resistor, a switch, and a 6.00-V voltage source, (a) What is the RC time constant of the circuit? (b) What is the initial current through the circuit, when the switch is closed? (c) How long does it take the current to reach one third of its initial value?
A homemade capacitor is constructed of 2 sheets of aluminum foil with an area of 2.00 square meters, separated by paper, 0.05 mm thick, of the same area and a dielectric constant of 3.7. The homemade capacitor is connected in series with a 100,00-
ε
resistor, a switch, and a 6.00-V voltage source, (a) What is the RC time constant of the circuit? (b) What is the initial current through the circuit, when the switch is closed? (c) How long does it take the current to reach one third of its initial value?
8.114 CALC A Variable-Mass Raindrop. In a rocket-propul-
sion problem the mass is variable. Another such problem is a rain-
drop falling through a cloud of small water droplets. Some of these
small droplets adhere to the raindrop, thereby increasing its mass
as it falls. The force on the raindrop is
dp
dv
dm
Fext
=
+
dt
dt
dt
=
Suppose the mass of the raindrop depends on the distance x that it
has fallen. Then m kx, where k is a constant, and dm/dt = kv.
This gives, since Fext
=
mg,
dv
mg = m
+ v(kv)
dt
Or, dividing by k,
dv
xgx
+ v²
dt
This is a differential equation that has a solution of the form
v = at, where a is the acceleration and is constant. Take the initial
velocity of the raindrop to be zero. (a) Using the proposed solution
for v, find the acceleration a. (b) Find the distance the raindrop has
fallen in t = 3.00 s. (c) Given that k = 2.00 g/m, find the mass of
the raindrop at t = 3.00 s. (For many more intriguing aspects of
this problem, see K. S. Krane, American Journal of…
8.13 A 2.00-kg stone is sliding Figure E8.13
F (kN)
to the right on a frictionless hori-
zontal surface at 5.00 m/s when
it is suddenly struck by an object
that exerts a large horizontal
force on it for a short period of 2.50
time. The graph in Fig. E8.13
shows the magnitude of this force
as a function of time. (a) What
impulse does this force exert on
t (ms)
15.0
16.0
the stone? (b) Just after the force stops acting, find the magnitude
and direction of the stone's velocity if the force acts (i) to the right
or (ii) to the left.
Please calculate the expectation value for E and the uncertainty in E for this wavefunction trapped in a simple harmonic oscillator potential
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