Question

A collater is a device need to shock the heart hack to normal het patteme. To do this discharges a 10 pP capacitor through paddles placed on the skin causing charge to flow through the heart. Assume that the actor is originally charged with 5.0kV O 5x10⁻²C O 5x10⁻⁵C O 5x10⁻⁸C O 5x10⁴C

Answer 1

In this problem, we're given a voltage of 5.0 kV and a capacitance of 10 pF. We can convert these into standard SI units since kV is kilovolts or thousands of volts and pF is picofarads or trillionths of a farad. So, we have:

5.0 kV = 5.0 * 10^3 V
10 pF = 10 * 10^-12 F

We can calculate the charge stored on the capacitor using the formula Q = CV, where Q is the charge, C is the capacitance, and V is the voltage.

So we multiply the capacitance and the voltage to get the charge:

Q = (10 * 10^-12 F) * (5.0 * 10^3 V)

Which simplifies to Q = 5 * 10^-8 C.

So, the charge stored on the capacitor is 5 * 10^-8 Coulombs. The correct choice is then 5x10⁻⁸C.