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The electrodes of a capacitor of capacitance C C = 2.00 2.00 μ \mu F F carry opposite charges q 0 q_0 = 1.00 1.00 m C mC . Then the electrodes are interconnected through a resistance R R = 5.0 M 5.0 M Ω \Omega . Find the charge flowing through that resistance during a time interval τ \tau = 2.00 2.00 seconds.


The answer is 0.00018.

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3 solutions

Md Zuhair
Mar 20, 2018

Lets derive the form, I can see, many did it with that form, But none posted how to derive,

So Here we go,

Lets think of an R-C Circuit where Resistance connected is R R and Capacitance is C C .

Now say, the charge developed at any time instant t t on the parallel plate capacitor before reaching steady point be q.

So We know the Emf Given by battery is ϵ \epsilon .

So we can say that due to the capacitor the there will be an back emf and hence the net emf at any time instant will be

ϵ q C = i R \epsilon - \dfrac{q}{C} = i R .

C × ϵ q C = d q d t R \implies \dfrac{C \times \epsilon - q}{C} = \dfrac{dq}{dt} R

C × ϵ q = R C d q d t \implies C \times \epsilon- q = RC \dfrac{dq}{dt}

d t R C = d q C ϵ q \implies \dfrac{dt}{RC} = \dfrac{dq}{C \epsilon - q}

0 t d t R C = 0 q 0 d q C ϵ q \implies \displaystyle{\int _{0}^{t} \dfrac{dt}{RC} = \int_{0}^{q_{0}}\dfrac{dq}{C \epsilon - q}}

After solving we will get

q = q 0 ( 1 e t R C ) \displaystyle{q=q_{0} (1-e^{\tiny\dfrac{-t}{RC}}})

Putting the values we get q q at any time instant, so after inputting t = 2 s t=2s we get the answer.

Nice solution !! RC circuits are good, but LCR circuits beat everything !

Ayon Ghosh - 3 years, 2 months ago

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:D. True.... Hey did you qualified for Indian Team?

Md Zuhair - 3 years, 2 months ago

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Camp is from May 10 to May 27...

Ayon Ghosh - 3 years, 2 months ago

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@Ayon Ghosh Oh okay! Preparing for camp, eh??

Md Zuhair - 3 years, 2 months ago

@Ayon Ghosh Where did you studied these Electrostatics , etc from?

Md Zuhair - 3 years, 2 months ago
Spandan Senapati
Feb 6, 2017

Kindly add in the question the units in which the answer must be expressed.(i.e-coulomb,millicoulomb)

Ya thats true

Md Zuhair - 3 years, 2 months ago
Raymond Lin
Jun 18, 2014

In an RC circuit, the charge that has flowed through the resistor by time t t is given by Q 0 ( 1 e t / τ ) Q_0 (1-e^{-t/ \tau}) , where Q O Q_O is the initial charge and τ = R C = 5 1 0 6 2 1 0 6 = 10 \tau=RC=5*10^{6}*2*10^{-6}=10 . Therefore, our answer is ( 1 1 0 3 ) ( 1 e 2 / 10 ) 0.00018 C (1*10^{-3}) (1-e^{-2/10}) \approx 0.00018 C .

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