Two capacitors connected in parallel produce an equivalent capacitance of 40.0 μF but when connected in series the equivalent capacitance is only 7.1 μF .
What is the individual capacitance of each capacitor?
Let be capacitances of the two capacitors. When connected in parallel, the equivalent capacitance is given by
When connected in series the equivalent capacitance is given by
Using equation (1) in the denominator of LHS
Again using equation (1) we get ,
This is a quadratic equation in C2, the roots of a quadratic equation are
The roots of the above quadratic equation are
Using (1) the other capacitance for each case is
Therefore, the two capacitors are .
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