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Circuit Elements

Conventional current: Widely known as Ohm’s law

Resistance of a long wire:

Units: Ohm, George Ohm(1789-1854)

Resistance

Resistance combines conductivity and geometry!

Microscopic Macroscopic

Can we write V=IR ?

Microscopic and Macroscopic View

Current flows in response to a DV

L=5 mm

A = 0.002 mm2

Conductivity of Carbon: = 3.104 (A/m2)/(V/m)

What is its resistance R?

(V/A)

What would be the current through this resistor if connected to a 1.5 V battery?

Exercise: Carbon Resistor

Mobility of electrons: depends on temperature

Conductivity and resistance depend on temperature.

Conductivity may also depend on the magnitude of current.

Constant and Varying Conductivity

Ohmic resistor: resistor made of ohmic material

Ohmic materials: materials in which conductivity is independent of the amount of current flowing through

not a function of current

Examples of ohmic materials:metal, carbon (at constant T!)

Ohmic Resistors

Tungsten: mobility at room temperature is larger than at ‘glowing’ temperature (~3000 K)

V-A dependence:3 V 100 mA1.5 V 80 mA0.05 V 6 mA

R30 19 8

V

I

Is a Light Bulb an Ohmic Resistor?

Metals, mobile electrons: slightest V produces current.

If electrons were bound – we would need to apply some field to free some of them in order for current to flow. Metals do not behave like this!

Semiconductors: n depends exponentially on E

Conductivity depends exponentially on E

Conductivity rises (resistance drops)with rising temperature

Semiconductors

Capacitors |V|=Q/C, function of time

Batteries: double current, but |V|emf, hardly changes

has limited validity!Ohmic when R is indep-pendent of I!

Conventional symbols:

Nonohmic Circuit Elements

Semiconductors

Vbatt + V1 + V2 + V3 = 0

emf - R1I - R2I - R3I = 0

emf = R1I + R2I + R3I

emf = (R1 + R2 + R3) I

emf = Requivalent I , where Requivalent = R1 + R2 + R3

Series Resistance

Know R , find V1,2

Solution:

1) Find current:

2) Find voltage:

3) Check:

Exercise: Voltage Divider

R1

R2

V1

V2

emf

I = I1 + I2 + I3

Parallel Resistance

R1 = 30

R2 = 10

What is the equivalent resistance?

What is the total current?

Alternative way:

Two Light Bulbs in Parallel

What would you expect if one is unscrewed?

Two Light Bulbs in Parallel

A) The single bulb is brighterB) No differenceC) The single bulb is dimmer

Current: charges are moving work is done

Work = change in electric potential energy of charges

Power = work per unit time:

I

Power for any kind of circuit component:

Work and Power in a Circuit

Units:

emf RKnow V, find P

Know I, find P

In practice: need to know P to select right size resistor – capable of dissipating thermal energy created by current.

Power Dissipated by a Resistor

What is the power output of the battery?

Electric field in a capacitor:0

/

AQ

E

E

s

+Q-Q

f

i

ldEV

EsV

sAQ

V0

/

V

s

AQ 0

VQ ~In general:

Definition of capacitance:VCQ

Capacitance

Capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor:

s

AC 0

Capacitance

Capacitance

Michael Faraday

(1791 - 1867)

VCQ

Units: C/V, Farads (F)

This 1 Farad capacitor is equivalent to a large two-disk capacitor

s=1 mm

D

How large would it be?

s

AC 0

0

CsA

A 1 F 0.001 m

9 10 12 C2 /N m2 A 1.1108 m2

D ~ 10 km (6 miles)

Exercise

Alternative approach:

Energy density:

Energy:

Energy Stored in a Capacitor

Capacitor: Charging and Discharging

Charging Discharging

Positive and negative charges are attracted to each other: how can they leave the plates?

Fringe field is not zero!

How is Discharging Possible?

Electrons in the wire near the negative plate feel a force thatmoves them away from the negative plate.

   

Electrons near the positive plate are attracted towards it.

Initial moment: brighter?

Will it glow longer?

Parallel Capacitors

Fringe field:R

sAQE

01 2

/

Capacitors in parallel effectively increase A

Will it glow at all?How do electrons flow throughthe bulb?

An Isolated Light Bulb

Why do we show charges nearbulb as - on the left and + onthe right?

Ammeter: measures current I

Voltmeter: measures voltage difference V

Ohmmeter: measures resistance R

Ammeters, Voltmeters and Ohmmeters

0.150

Connecting ammeter:

Conventional current must flow into the ‘+’ terminal and emerge from the ‘-’ terminal to result in positive reading.

Using an Ammeter

Simple commercialammeter

Ammeter Design

Want tiny resistance in coil so current isn’t affected

What happens if not connected correctly?

VAB – add a series resistor to ammeter

R

VI

Measure I and convert to VAB=IR

Connecting Voltmeter:

Higher potential must be connected to the ‘+’ socket and lower one to the ‘-’ socket to result in positive reading.

VoltmeterVoltmeters measure potential difference

R

How would you measure R?

A

Ohmmeter

R

emfI

I

emf

Ohmmeter

Ammeter with a small voltage source

0_ Ctripround VRIemfV

C

QVC

0C

QRIemf

I dQ

dt

emf Q / C

R

Initial situation: Q=0R

emfI 0

Q and I are changing in timedt

d

RC

Q

dt

d

R

emf

dt

d

dt

dIdt

dQ

RCdt

dI 1 I

RCdt

dI 1

Quantitative Analysis of an RC Circuit

IRCdt

dI 1

dtRC

dII

11

tI

I

dtRC

dII 0

11

0

RC

tII 0lnln

RC

t

I

I

0

ln

RC

t

eI

I

0

RCteII /0

Current in an RC circuit

What is I0 ?

RCteR

emfI /

Current in an RC circuit

RC Circuit: Current

What about charge Q?

RCteR

emfI /

Current in an RC circuit

dt

dQI

IdtdQ

t

RCtt

dteR

emfIdtQ

0

/

0

Q C emf 1 e t / RC

RC Circuit: Charge and Voltage

 

   

RCteR

emfI /

Current in an RC circuit

Charge in an RC circuit

Q C emf 1 e t / RC

Voltage in an RC circuit

V emf 1 e t / RC

RC Circuit: Summary

RCteR

emfI /

Current in an RC circuit

When time t = RC, the current I drops by a factor of e.

RC is the ‘time constant’ of an RC circuit.

37.0718.2

11/ ee RCt

The RC Time Constant

A rough measurement of how long it takes to reach final equilibrium

What is the value of RC?

About 9 seconds

Question

A 0.5 farad capacitor isconnected to a 1.5 voltbattery and a bulb, andcurrent runs until the bulbgoes out. What is theabsolute value of thecharge on one plate of thecapacitor?

A) 0.33 CB) 0.5 CC) 0.75 CD) 1.5 CE) 3.0 C

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