Answer:
Explanation:
I'll upload my work shortly as an attachment, but here is my process in words:
- In our first situation we have two capacitors in parallel, which means the charge distribution on both of them is the same. With that, we can find a ratio between the values of Capacitors A and B.
- In our second situation , we add a capacitor parallel to A (I called it C). Because A and C are in parallel, we know that they must have the same potential difference; which should come to be 10V since 90V of the total 100V is on B. Also, the equivalent charge distribution across A and C must be equal to that of the charge distribution at B, because A&C are in series with B. So I added the charges on A&C and set that equal to the charge on B.
- Next, I used the ratio from the first situation to substitute Capacitor A out of the equation. This allows us to solve for B's capacitance. (Note: You could have also substituted B for A and solved for A first if you wanted to.)
- Finally, I used B's capacitance to plug back into the ratio from the first situation to find A's capacitance. And they wanted the answer in micro-Farads, so I went ahead and converted each answer to micro.
