The document discusses capacitor circuits and how charge is stored and released in capacitors. It poses questions about how the total charge in a capacitor remains the same after charging and how bulbs can light without a battery when a charged capacitor discharges. It asks the reader to list key findings and assumptions that make up the model of electricity based on experiments with circuits. It provides an analogy that visualizes how a capacitor stores charge like a water tower stores water pressure and then releases it later.
Consider the capacitor circuits you have studied- 9- The total amount.docx
1. Consider the capacitor circuits you have studied. 9. The total amount of mobile charge in a
capacitor is the same after charging as before charging. Explain (in detail) how this is possible.
Ordinarily you think of charge flowing in a circuit when wires are connected to a battery.
Explain how it is possible for bulbs to light in a circuit in which a capacitor is discharging even
when there is no battery in the circuit. 10. why does it make sense to believe that the wire can
also be a source of moving charge? 11, From the experiments you have done and the
assumptions we have made, you now have an idea or model of the behavior of electricity. List at
least five of the findings and assumptions that make up this model 12. a. b. C. d.
Solution
Problem -9
One way to visualize the action of a capacitor is to imagine it as a water tower hooked to a
pipe. A water tower "stores" water pressure -- when the water system pumps produce
more water than a town needs, the excess is stored in the water tower. Then, at times of
high demand, the excess water flows out of the tower to keep the pressure up. A capacitor
sotres electrons in the same way, and can then release them later.