Question

Two capacitors, CA and CB, are such that CA > CB. These are connected with a battery in various ways: each individually, series, and parallel. Rank these four cases according to the total amount of charge, greatest first.

a. (CA) > (C) > (CA and CB in series) > (CA and Co in parallel)
b. (CA)>(Cb)> (CA and CB in parallel) > (CA and CB in series)
c. (CA and CB in series) > (CA) > (CB) > (CA and CB in parallel)
d. (CA and Cg in parallel) > (CA) > (CB) > (CA and Cg in series)

Answer 1

b. (CA)>(Cb)> (CA and CB in parallel) > (CA and CB in series)

Step-by-step explanation:

This is because capacitors in series is the sum of the reciprocal of the capacitances while that of parallel is the sum of the individual capacitances