Question

What is the displacement current in the capacitor if the potential difference across the capacitor is increasing at 500,000V/s?

Answer 1

Answer:

$I=2.71\times 10^{-5}\ A$

Explanation:

A 6.0-cm-diameter parallel-plate capacitor has a 0.46 mm gap.  

What is the displacement current in the capacitor if the potential difference across the capacitor is increasing at 500,000V/s?

Let given is,

The diameter of a parallel plate capacitor is 6 cm or 0.06 m

Separation between plates, d = 0.046 mm

The potential difference across the capacitor is increasing at 500,000 V/s

We need to find the displacement current in the capacitor. Capacitance for parallel plate capacitor is given by :

$C=\dfrac{A\epsilon_o}{d}\\\\C=\dfrac{\pi r^2\epsilon_o}{d}$, r is radius

Let I is the displacement current. It is given by :

$I=C\dfrac{dV}{dt}$

Here, $\dfrac{dV}{dt}$ is rate of increasing potential difference

So

$I=\dfrac{\pi r^2\epsilon_o}{d}\times \dfrac{dV}{dt}\\\\I=\dfrac{\pi (0.03)^2\times 8.85\times 10^{-12}}{0.46\times 10^{-3}}\times 500000\\\\I=2.71\times 10^{-5}\ A$

So, the value of displacement current is $2.71\times 10^{-5}\ A$.