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Lecture Practice Problems

Capacitor - 3
LEVEL – I

1. If the capacitance between two successive plates is

B
C, find the capacitance of the equivalent system A
between A and B.

2. Four identical metal plates are located in air at equal distances d from one another. The area of
each plate is equal to S. Find the capacitance of the system between points A and B if the plates
are interconnected as shown in figure (a) and (b).

3. Find the capacitance of a system of identical capacitors between points A and B shown in figure (a)
and (b)

4. Find the equivalent capacitance between A and B, B

A
if the plates have equal area A and the separation
between the plates is d.

5. A parallel plate capacitor is made by stacking n equally spaced plates connected alternately. If the
capacitance between any two plates is C then the resultant capacitance is
(A) C (B) nC (C) (n – 1)C (D) (n + 1)C
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6. Capacitors each of capacity 2F are to be so connected to have a total capacity F . Which will be
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the necessary figure as shown
(A) (B)

(C) (D)

7. Three capacitors each of capacitance 1 F are connected in parallel. To this combination, a fourth
capacitor of capacitance 1 F is connected in series. The resultant capacitance of the system is
4 3
(A) 4 F (B) 2 F (C) F (D) F
3 4

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8. The potential difference across the capacitor of 2F is 3F

(A) 10 V (B) 60 V 2F
(C) 28 V (D) 56 V 6F

3F

70V

9. Find equivalent capacitance between A and B. d A

[Assume each conducting plate is having same dimensions and d
 A d
neglect the thickness of the plate, 0  7F where A is area of
d 2d
plates, A >> d] B d
(A) 7 F (B) 11 F
(C) 12 F (D) 12 F

10. A condenser having a capacity of 6 F is charged to 100 V and is then joined to an uncharged
condenser of 14 F and then removed. The ratio of the charges of 6 F and 14 F and the potential
of 6 F will be
6 14 6 14
(A) and 50 volt (B) and 30 volt (C) and 30 volt (D) and 0 volt
14 6 14 6

11. Two identical parallel plate capacitors are connected in series to a battery of 100 V. A dielectric slab
of dielectric constant 4.0 is inserted between the plates of second capacitor. The potential difference
across the capacitors will now be respectively
(A) 50 V, 50 V (B) 80 V, 20 V (C) 20 V, 80 V (D) 75 V, 25 V

12. Four identical capacitors are connected as shown in diagram. When a

battery of 6V is connected between A and B, the total charge is found to
be 1.5 C. The value of C1 is
(A) 2.5 F (B) 15 F
(C) 1.5 F (D) 0.1 F

LEVEL – II

1. Capacity of a spherical capacitor is C1 when inner sphere is charged and outer sphere is earthed
C
and C2 when inner sphere is earthed and outer sphere is charged. Find 1 .(a = radius of inner
C2
sphere, b = radius of outer sphere)

2. Four metallic plates, each having a surface area of one side A, 1

are placed at a distance D from each other. The plates are 2
connected as shown in the figure. Find the ratio of the field R 3 E
strength between plates 2 and 3 and that between plates 1 and 4
2.
Given R = 3, E = 72V,
D = 0.1 mm, A = 4 m2

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3. Three conducting spheres A, B and C are as shown in figure. C

The radii of the sphere are a, b and c respectively. A and B are B
connected by a conducting wire. Find the capacity of the system. A
a
b

4. All capacitors are identical and initially uncharged. S1 is closed at t =

0, leaving all others switches open. After a sufficient long time, S1 is
opened and S2 is closed. The process is done till Sn–1 is opened and
Sn is closed. Determine the individual energies of all the capacitors
after closing Sn and the net loss of energy of the system if it consisted
of infinite number of capacitances.

5. Terminal A is connected to positive terminal of battery and B is connected to negative terminal of

plate and it send same charge Q in all four combination. Each plate have same area and separation
between two consecutive plate is same.
Column I Column II
1
2
(A) 3
(p) Top surface of plate 1 have zero charge
A
4 B
1
2
(B) A (q) Upper surface of plate 4 have Q charge
3
B
4
1
2
(C) A (r) Same charge Appear on both surface of plate 2
3
4 B
1
2
(D) 3
(s) Bottom surface of plate 4 have zero charge
A 3 B
4
(t) Total charge on plate 2 is Q

10 V
6. What is the energy stored in the capacitor between terminals a and b of
the network shown in the figure? (Capacitance of each capacitor C = 5F).
(A) 1 J (B) 0.25 J C C
(C) zero. (D) 15.6 J a
b
C C

7. The charge flowing across the circuit on closing the key K is equal to K
C
(A) CV (B) V
2 C
(C) 2CV (D) zero 1 2C

V
+ 

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8. What is the potential at point O? +5v

(A) 4.27 V (B) 17 V
(C) zero (D) 34V 1F
4F
O
+6v +3v
3F 3F

+3v

9. In the arrangement shown, all particles have equal area. The amount of
spacing between plates is mentioned. Find the equivalent capacitance of 2L A
the system between A and B. L
5 3 L
(A) C (B) C
7 7 L B
1 2L
(C) C (D) None of these
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10. To form a composite 16 F, 1000 V capacitor from a supply of identical capacitor marked 8 F, 250
V, we require a minimum number of capacitors
(A) 40 (B) 32 (C) 8 (D) 2

11. An infinite number of identical capacitors each of capacitance

1 F are connected as in adjoining figure. Then the
equivalent capacitance between A and B is
8 capacitors
(A) 1 F
(B) 2 F 16 capacitors
1
(C) F
2
(D) 
A B

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ANSWER KEY
1. 3C

2. (a) C = 20 S/3d; (b) C = 30S/2d

3. (a) Ctotal = C1 + C2 + C3; (b) Ctotal = C.

4. Potential of 1, 4 plates are same
Potential of 2, 3 plates are same
The equivalent figure is
No capacitor is form due to 2, 3 plates because they are at same potential.
2 A
 Ceq  C  C  2C  0
d
5. (C) The given arrangement becomes an arrangement of (n – 1) capacitors connected in parallel. So
CR  (n  1)C

6. (A)

7. (D) The circuit can be drawn as follows

3 1 3
 CAB   F .
3 1 4

8. B
9. B
10. C
10. Let q1, q2 be the charges on two condensers
q q q1 6 3
 V 1 2   
6 14 q2 14 7
14 600
Also q1  q2  600  q1  q1  600  q1  6
6 20
q 600
 V 1  30 volt.
6 20
C  4C 4C
11. B Ceq  
(C  4C) 5
4C
Q  Ceq .V   100  80 C
5
Q 80 C
Hence V1    80 V
C1 C1
80C
and V2   20 V
4C

12. (D) The capacitance across A and B

C 5
 1  C1  C1  C1
2 2
As Q  CV ,
5
1.5 C  C1  6
2
1.5
 C1   10 6  0.1 10 6 F  0.1 F .
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LEVEL - II
1. 1
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2. ?
 bc 
3. 40  
c b
5CE2 Qi2 CE CE
4. H= , U1 = for i = 1 to n–1; Q2 = ; for i = n, Q2 = i1
6 2C 2i 2
5. (A)  (p, r, s) (B)  (p, q, r, s, t) (C)  (p, s, t) (D)  (p, s)
6. C
1 q1q2
6. The force exerted by charge q1 on another charge q2 in free space is F12 = and it
4 0 r 2
remains unchanged even when the space has relative permittivity r The net force) is charged
q1q2
to due to polarization of the medium, but F12 remains unchanged. Similar arguments
4 0 r r 2
apply here, Here option (C) is the correct.
7. B
7. When the key K is kept open the charge drawn from the source is
Q = CV
where C is the equivalent capacitance given by
C = C/2
Therefore Q = (C/2)V
When the key K is closed, the capacitor 2 gets short circuited and thus the charge with the single
capacitor 1 is Q = CV.
CV
Thus the additional charges supplied by the source is Q- Q =
2
 Charge flowing is Q = (C/2) V
 (B) is correct.

8. A

9. (B) C/2 C/2

A
9. Equivalent circuit
3 B
C net  C C
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C C
10. (B) Suppose C = 8 F, C' = 16 F
and V = 250 V, V' = 1000 V

Suppose m rows of given capacitors are connected in parallel and each row contains n capacitors
V'
then potential difference across each capacitor V  and equivalent capacitance of network
n
mC
C'  on putting the values we get n = 4 and m = 8
n
 Total capacitors = n  m = 4  8 = 32
2 2
C'  V '  16  1000 
Short Trick: For such type of problems number of capacitors       32
C V 8  250 

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1 1 1
11. (B) This combination forms a G.P. S  1    ......
2 4 8
a
Sum of infinite G.P. S 
1 r
1
Here a = first term = 1 and r = common ratio 
2
1
 S  2  Ceq  2F
1
1
2

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