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Fall 2013

ME-2305

Network Analysis
3rd Semester (Mechatronics)
SZABIST, Karachi

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Engr. Humera Rafique

Assistant Professor
(Department of Mechatronic Engineering)
humera.rafique@szabist.edu.pk

Office: 100 Campus R-404

Course Support: Zabdesk

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Chapter Contents

1. Capacitors
2. Inductors
3. Combinations

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Capacitors

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Capacitors

Capacitor:
A circuit element that consists of two conducting surfaces separated by a nonconducting, or dielectric, material
To store electric charges

Construction
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Capacitors

Capacitor Types:
Categorized by type of dielectric materials
1. General purpose:
Coupling capacitors in filters/ amplifiers
Dielectric materials: paper (impregnated with oil or wax), mylar,
polystyrene, mica, glass, or ceramic
2. Ceramic dielectric:
High frequency applications
Barium titanates (a large capacitance-to-volume ratio because of their
high dielectric constant)
Mica, & glass (also used)

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Capacitor Types:
3. Aluminum Electrolytic:
a pair of aluminum plates separated by a moistened borax paste
electrolyte
High values of capacitance in small volumes
Filtering, bypassing, and coupling
Power supplies and motor-starting applications
Tantalum
electrolytic
capacitors have lower losses
and
more
stable
characteristics than those of
aluminum
electrolytic
capacitors

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Capacitance:
Tendency of a device to store charges
Measured in coulombs per volt or farads (F)

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Fixed, variable
Typical ranges: 1000s of F to a few pF

A 100-F
capacitor

double-layer

2.5

25

Stores: 312.5 Joules

A 68,000-F
capacitor

electrolytic

Stores: 21.25 Joules

If 10 of the 100-F capacitors in series for an equivalent 25-V capacitor
The energy stored in this equivalent capacitor is 3125 J
Requires 147 electrolytic capacitors in parallel to store that much energy
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Dimensions:
dimensions of a simple equivalent capacitor consisting of two parallel plates
each of area A, separated by a distance d

 


 : Permitivity of free space = 8.85 x 102 F/m

For a 100F capacitor, the plates are separated by a distance in air of the
thickness of one sheet of oil-impregnated paper, which is about 1.016 x 104
m:
  1.148  10 2

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