Understanding Capacitors

Practice Questions

AP Physics B › Understanding Capacitors

Questions
3
1

A capacitor has a stored charge of and a potential energy of . What is the voltage across the capacitor?

2

Which of the following is equal to the time constant of an RC circuit?

3

Which of the following statements is false regarding capacitors?

I. A larger capacitor stores more energy

II. Capacitors connected in parallel have the same voltage drop

III. Increasing the distance between the two plates increases the capacitance

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