Air isn’t a perfect electric insulator, but it has a very high resistivity. Dry air has a resistivity of approximately 3 × 10 13 Ω · m. A capacitor has square plates 10 cm on a side separated by 1.2 mm of dry air. If the capacitor is charged to 250 V, what fraction of the charge will flow across the air gap in 1 minute? Make the approximation that the potential difference doesn’t change as the charge flows.
Air isn’t a perfect electric insulator, but it has a very high resistivity. Dry air has a resistivity of approximately 3 × 10 13 Ω · m. A capacitor has square plates 10 cm on a side separated by 1.2 mm of dry air. If the capacitor is charged to 250 V, what fraction of the charge will flow across the air gap in 1 minute? Make the approximation that the potential difference doesn’t change as the charge flows.
Air isn’t a perfect electric insulator, but it has a very high resistivity. Dry air has a resistivity of approximately 3 × 1013 Ω · m. A capacitor has square plates 10 cm on a side separated by 1.2 mm of dry air. If the capacitor is charged to 250 V, what fraction of the charge will flow across the air gap in 1 minute? Make the approximation that the potential difference doesn’t change as the charge flows.
Four resistors (R1=A ohms, R2=B ohms, R3= C ohms, R4=D ohms) are connected in parallel. Find the current in R2 if the total voltage is 220 V.
If the total voltage in the previous item is the potential difference between the two plates of a parallel plate capacitor, what is the capacitance if the amount of charge in one plate is A nanocoulombs?
Each of the uncharged capacitors in the figure has a capacitance of 25.8 µF. A potential difference of 4200 V is established when the switch is closed. How much charge then passes through meter A?
Dry air is a pretty decent insulator; it has a very high resistivity of 3 × 101³ 2 · m. Consider a
capacitor that has square plates 15 cm on a side, separated by 0.8 mm of dry air. The capacitor is
charged such that it has a potential of 320 V between the plates.
First, what is the resistance of the volume of air between the plates in G2 (to 3 significant digits)?
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What is the capacitance of this capacitor (in pF to 3 significant digits)?
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