BMM 2433

Electric & Electronics Technology

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 Topic 8:
Capacitance And Inductance

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 Content
1. Determine the current, voltage, power and energy for a
capacitance or inductance.
2. Determine the equivalent capacitance and inductance from
combination of series and parallel of capacitance and
inductance.

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 Capasitance
• A capacitor is basically a device which stores an electric
charge. Physically, it consists of two metal plates separated by
insulating material or dielectric.

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• Application of a DC voltage across the capacitor produces
deficiency of electrons on the positive plate and excess of
electrons on the negative plate.

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• In an ideal capacitor, the stored charge q is proportional to
the voltage between the plates:
q = C.v
the constant proportionality is the capacitance C, which has
units of farads (F).
Farads are equivalent to coulomb/volt

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 Current and Voltage for a
capacitance
• Current at capacitor is the time rate of flow of charge

i = dq/dt = d (Cv)/dt
= C . dv/dt

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• If the current (i) flowing through a capacitance C, we can
calculate voltage (v) at the capacitor.

• and v = q/C

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Figure 3.5 Waveforms for Example 3.2.

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 Power and Energy for a
capacitance
• The power delivered to a circuit element is the product of the
current and the voltage.
P = V . I= V. (C . dv/dt)

• If we integrate the power delivered from t0 to t, we find

energy delivered.

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 Capacitances
in parallel connection

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 Capacitances
in series connection

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• Find the equivalent capacitance for each of the circuit

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 Inductance
• An inductor is usually constructed by coiling a wire around
some type of form.

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 Current and Voltage for a
inductance
• Current flowing through the coil creates a magnetic field or
flux.
• For the ideal inductor, the voltage is proportional to the time
rate of change of the current.

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 Power and Energy
for a inductance
• The power delivered to a circuit element by taking the
product of the current and the voltage.
• Integrating the power delivered from t0 to t, we find energy
delivered.

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 Inductances
in parallel and series connections

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• Find the equivalent inductance for each of the circuits.

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