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A 400μF capacitor is charged using a 20 V battery. It is connected across the ends of a 600Ω resistor with 20 V potential difference across its plates.

(c) Calculate the time it takes the charge on the capacitor to fall to 2.0mC.

Important Questions on Capacitance

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A 400μF capacitor is charged using a 20 V battery. It is connected across the ends of a 600Ω resistor with 20 V potential difference across its plates.

(d) State the potential difference across the plates when the charge has fallen to 2.0mC.

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A 470μF capacitor is connected across the terminals of a battery of e.m.f. 9 V. Calculate the charge on the plates of the capacitor.
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Calculate the p.d. across the terminals of a 2200μF capacitor when it has a charge of 0.033C on its plates.
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Calculate the capacitance of a capacitor if it stores a charge of 2.0C when there is a potential difference of 5000 V across its plates.
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Calculate the energy stored on a capacitor if it stores 1.5mC of charge when there is a potential difference of 50 V across it.
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A 4700μF capacitor has a p.d. of 12 V across its terminals. Calculate the charge stored on the capacitor.

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A 4700μF capacitor has a p.d. of 12 V across its terminals. It is connected to a resistor and the charge leaks away through the resistor in 2.5 s. Estimate the resistance of the resistor.

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A 4700 µF capacitor has a p.d. of 12 V across its terminals. It is connected to a resistor and the charge leaks away through the resistor in 2.5 s. Suggest why the last two quantities can only be estimates