Frequency response 3

Consider the circuit on the image with a voltage source V = 10 2 sin ( ω t ) V = 10\sqrt{2} \sin(\omega t) . What is the effective voltage across the capacitor as the frequency of the voltage source goes to zero?


The answer is 10.

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2 solutions

When ω 0 \omega \to 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 10 V \boxed{10} \text{ V} .

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 capacitor as

V o = V i ( Z c R + Z c ) V_o = V_i \cdot \left(\frac{Z_c}{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 go to infinity as the frequency goes to zero, which means that

lim Z c 0 ( Z c R + Z c ) = lim Z c 0 ( 1 1 + R Z c ) = 1 \lim_{Z_c \to 0}\left(\frac{Z_c}{R + Z_c}\right) = \lim_{Z_c \to 0}\left(\frac{1}{1 + \frac{R}{Z_c}}\right) = 1 so V o = V i 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 V p 2 = 10 2 2 = 10 V \frac{V_p}{\sqrt{2}} = \frac{10\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2}} = 10V

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