Your electronics company has several identical capacitors with capacitance C 1 and several others with capacitance C

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Your electronics company has several identical capacitors with capacitance Cand several others with capacitance C2. You must determine the values of Cand C2 but don’t have access to C1 and C2 individually. Instead, you have a network with C1 and C2 connected in series and a network with C1 and Cconnected in parallel. You have a 200.0-V battery and instrumentation that measures the total energy supplied by the battery when it is connected to the network. When the parallel combination is connected to the battery, 0.180 J of energy is stored in the network. When the series combination is connected, 0.0400 J of energy is stored. You are told that C1 is greater than C2.

(a) Calculate C1 and C2.

(b) For the series combination, does C1 or C2 store more charge, or are the values equal? Does C1 or C2 store more energy, or are the values equal?

(c) Repeat part (b) for the parallel combination.

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University Physics with Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0133977981

14th edition

Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman

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