Frequency response 2

Consider the circuit on the image with a voltage source V = 10 2 s i n ( ω t ) V = 10\sqrt{2} sin(\omega t) . What is the effective voltage on the resistor as the frequency of my voltage source goes to infinity?


The answer is 10.

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1 solution

João Areias
Apr 9, 2018

The resistor with the capacitor are a voltage divider. Let's call Z c Z_c the capacitor's impedance and R R the resistor's impedance, we can calculate the voltage across the resistor as

V o = V i ( R R + Z c ) V_o = V_i \cdot \left(\frac{R}{R + Z_c}\right)

We can calculate Z c Z_c in function of the frequency as Z c = j 2 π f C Z_c = \frac{-j}{2\pi f C} with j = 1 j = \sqrt{-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 R + Z c ) = R R = 1 \left(\frac{R}{R + Z_c}\right) = \frac{R}{R} = 1 so V o = V i 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 V p 2 = 10 2 2 = 10 V \frac{V_p}{\sqrt{2}} = \frac{10\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2}} = 10V

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