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Capacitors Worksheet

This document provides examples of calculating the energy stored by capacitors connected to batteries or in parallel configurations. It asks the reader to calculate: 1) The energy stored on individual capacitors given the voltage and charge, and to calculate the charge given the energy. 2) The equivalent capacitance and total energy stored for two capacitors in parallel. 3) The equivalent capacitance and total energy for three capacitors in a series-parallel configuration. 4) The equivalent capacitance and total energy for five capacitors in a more complex series-parallel configuration.

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Capacitors Worksheet

This document provides examples of calculating the energy stored by capacitors connected to batteries or in parallel configurations. It asks the reader to calculate: 1) The energy stored on individual capacitors given the voltage and charge, and to calculate the charge given the energy. 2) The equivalent capacitance and total energy stored for two capacitors in parallel. 3) The equivalent capacitance and total energy for three capacitors in a series-parallel configuration. 4) The equivalent capacitance and total energy for five capacitors in a more complex series-parallel configuration.

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Energy Stored by a Capacitor

1. a) How much energy is stored on a capacitor if a 20 v battery can store


5 x 10-4 C of charge on the capacitor?

b) How much energy can a 0.5 μF capacitor store when it is connected to a


30 v battery?

c) How much charge is on a capacitor if it stores 0.0075 j of energy when it is


connected to a 50 v source?

2. Two capacitors, C1=10µF and C2=50µF, are connected together in parallel.


The potential difference across the capacitors is 100V.

a) What is the equivalent capacitance of the parallel capacitors?


b) How much total energy is stored by the capacitors?

3. From the arrangement of capacitors, answer the following questions.

C30.30 F

12 V

0.15 F C1 C20.25 F

a) What is the equivalent capacitance of this arrangement?

b) What is the total energy stored by the capacitors?


4. Given the arrangement of capacitors, answer the following questions.

C112.0 F

1.2 F C2 C31.8 F

18 V

C33.0 F

C5

2.2 F
C44.5 F

a) What is the equivalent capacitance of this arrangement?


b) Determine the total energy stored by the capacitors .

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