Week 4 Homework Assignment

  1. Calculate the current through each resistor in Fig.1 if each resistance R = 2.20kW. What is the potential difference between points A and B?

    Fig. 1 Fig. 2Fig. 3

  2. A battery with an emf of 12.0V shows a terminal voltage of 11.8V when operating in a circuit with two lightbulbs rated at 3.0W ( at 12.0V) which are connected in parallel with it. What is the battery's internal resistance?
  3. In Fig. 2, let V = 90V and C1C2 = C3 = 8.8mF. How much energy is stored in the capacitor network?
  4. An air-filled parallel-plate capacitor of capacitance C0 is filled with two identically sized dielectric slabs of dielectric constants K1 and K2 as shown in Fig. 3. What is the new capacitance?