For example: The voltage across all the capacitors is 10V and the capacitance value are 2F, 3F and 6F respectively. Draw and label each capacitor with its charge and voltage. Once the voltage and charge in each capacitor is calculated, the circuit is solved. Label these information in the circuit drawing to keep everything organized.
Given the voltage and capacitor values for each, find the total capacitance. To calculate the total capacitance in a series circuit, use the formula For example: A series circuit has three different capacitors of value C 1 = 2F, C 2 = 3F, C 3 = 6F. Plug in to the formula and solve for C T. Adding the fraction and taking the inverse, C T = 1F.
When adding together Capacitors in Series, the reciprocal ( 1/C ) of the individual capacitors are all added together ( just like resistors in parallel ) instead of the capacitance’s themselves. Then the total value for capacitors in series equals the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of the individual capacitances.
Then we can see that if and only if the two series connected capacitors are the same and equal, then the total capacitance, CT will be exactly equal to one half of the capacitance value, that is: C/2.
Then to summarise, the total or equivalent capacitance, CT of a circuit containing Capacitors in Series is the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of all of the individual capacitance’s added together.
For a series circuit, charge across each capacitor is the same and equal to the total charge in the circuit. For example: The total charge in the circuit is 10 C. Then the charge in C 1 is 10 C, C 2 is 10 C and C 1 is 10C. Calculate the voltage across each capacitor. Rearranging the equation to , the voltage across each capacitor can be calculated.
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