Question: [ DC RLC Circuit ] Consider the circuit below, with a resistor, capacitor, and inductor. At time = 0 , switch is open, the currents

[DC RLC Circuit] Consider the circuit below, with a resistor, capacitor, and inductor. At time
=0, switch is open, the currents are all zero, and there is no charge on the capacitor. We will call
the current through the resistor, 1 the current through the inductor, 2 the current through the
capacitor, and 2 the charge on the capacitor, all of which are functions of time.
(a) Immediately after the switch is closed, what are ,1,2, and 2?
(b) After a very long time, what are ,1,2, and 2?
(c) After a very long time, the switch is opened again. Immediately after the switch is opened again,
what are ,1,2, and 2?
(d) Use Kirchoffs laws to find a differential equation for 2(), the charge on the capacitor after the
switch is re-opened.
Assume =0 is the time when the switch is opened. The charge on the capacitor takes the form:
2()= sin + cos
(e) What is the value of that satifies the differential equation from part (d)?
(f) Find the constants and in terms of the given circuit parameters, ,,, and .
Tip: What are your boundary conditions? I.e., what do you know about the charge on the
capacitor, etc?

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