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What is the current flow created by the capacitor if it discharges every .1 s across a potential difference of?

• Sherm is typing his term paper on a computer that contains a high-speed switch, controlled with a small 100 x 10^-12 F speed up capacitor. What is the current flow created by the capacitor if it is discharges every .1s across a potential difference of 5V?

• Answer:

  The definition of a farad is the amount of capacitance that will hold a charge of one coulomb with a potential difference of one volt. So the charge Q = C times V where C is the capacity in farads and V the potential difference in volts. If the capacitor is charged to full capacity and has a capacitance of 100 * 10**-12 F or 100 picofarad, 5 volts will charge it fully to 5 picocoulombs (pQ). If it discharges its 5 pQ in 0.1 second, that produces a current flow of 5 picocoulombs 10 times per second, totaling 50 pQ per second. Since one ampere is defined as 1 coulomb per second, the resulting current flow from this capacitor is 50 picoamperes (pA).