Consider the circuit on the image with a voltage source . What is the effective voltage on the resistor as the frequency of my voltage source goes to infinity?
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The resistor with the capacitor are a voltage divider. Let's call Z c the capacitor's impedance and R the resistor's impedance, we can calculate the voltage across the resistor as
V o = V i ⋅ ( R + Z c R )
We can calculate Z c in function of the frequency as Z c = 2 π f C − j with j = − 1 . It's easy to see that the capacitor's impedance will get infinitesimally small as the frequency goes to infinity, which means that
( R + Z c R ) = R R = 1 so V o = V i
Since the voltages will be equal, the voltage effective voltage across the resistor will be equal to the effective voltage of the power source, which is 2 V p = 2 1 0 2 = 1 0 V