ECE Midterm: Act-5

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Objectives: to investigate an ac capacitive circuit, to investigate the impedance of a capacitor and see how this varies with frequency. Capacitor is another fundamental electrical element having two conducting surfaces separated by an insulating material and having a capacity to store charge on its plates. A measure of capacitor"s ability to store charge is capacitance. A perfect capacitor in an ac circuit takes a current that leads the impressed emf by exactly. Storing and releasing equal amount of electrostatic energy during successive quarter cycles, the average energy per cycle involved in such a circuit is zero; this means that the average power delivered to a capacitor is zero. Capacitive reactance is the opposition to the flow of charge, which results in the continuous interchange of energy between the source and the electric field of the capacitor. The capacitor"s reactance is also called inpedance and is measured in ohms. and phasor diagrams showing the phase relationship.

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