Consider the circuit on the image with a voltage source V = 1 0 2 sin ( ω t ) . What is the effective voltage across the capacitor as the frequency of the voltage source goes to zero?
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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 capacitor as
V o = V i ⋅ ( R + Z c Z c )
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 go to infinity as the frequency goes to zero, which means that
lim Z c → 0 ( R + Z c Z c ) = lim Z c → 0 ( 1 + Z c R 1 ) = 1 so V o = V i
Since the voltages will be equal, the voltage effective voltage across the capacitor will be equal to the effective voltage of the power source, which is 2 V p = 2 1 0 2 = 1 0 V
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When ω → 0 , the voltage source becomes a DC (direct-current) source. Then the capacitor will take on the voltage of the voltage source when fully charged that is 1 0 V .