RC circuit

In the circuit shown, switch S S is closed at time 0, then the charge on the capacitor C 2 C_{2} in steady state in μ C \mu C .


The answer is 40.

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2 solutions

Rohit Ner
Aug 28, 2015


At steady state, no current passes through the capacitors. For ease, we can just remove them from the circuit. After distributing the current with help of Kirchhoff's laws, the circuit is like the one above. It is clear that the potential across the points A A and B B is the potential across the capacitor C 2 {C}_{2} .
V A + 10 ( 8 9 ) 10 ( 10 9 ) 10 ( 2 9 ) = V B V A V B = 40 9 Q = 9 ( 40 9 ) = 40 μ C {V}_{A}+10(\frac{8}{9})-10(\frac{10}{9})-10(\frac{2}{9})={V}_{B}\\{V}_{A}-{V}_{B}=\frac{40}{9}\\Q=9(\frac{40}{9})\\\Huge\color{#3D99F6}{=\boxed{40 \mu C}}

In the steady state we know that any current that pass through capacitor is equal to zero.

So, we reduce our problem from DE to simple linear equation. We have

2 = 2 i 1 + i 2 2=2i_{1}+i_{2}

2 = i 1 + 5 i 2 2=i_{1}+5i_{2}

From this we have i 2 = 2 9 A i_{2}=\frac{2}{9} A

then we got Q = 9 40 9 = 40 μ C Q=9*\frac{40}{9}=40 \mu C

Another extremely overrated problem..

Pankaj Joshi - 5 years, 12 months ago

what do you mean by i 1 {i}_{1} & i 2 {i}_{2} ?

monty g - 5 years, 9 months ago

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