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Your electronics company has several identical capacitors with capacitance C1C1 and several others with capacitance C2C2.You must determine the values of C1C1 and C2C2 but don't have access to C1C1 and C2C2 individually. Instead, you have a network with C1C1 and C2C2 connected in series and a network with C1C1 and C2C2 connected in parallel. You have a 200.0 VV battery and instrumentation that measures the total energy supplied by the battery when it is connected to the network. When the parallel combination is connected to the battery, 0.180 JJ of energy is stored in the network. When the series combination is connected, 0.0300 JJ of energy is stored. You are told that C1C1 is greater than C2C2.
a. Calculate C_1
b. Calculate C_2
c. For the series combination, does C1C1 or C2C2 store more charge, or are the values equal?
d. For the series combination, does C2C2 store more energy than C1C1, or are the values equal?
e. For the parallel combination, does C1C1 or C2C2 store more charge, or are the values equal?
f. For the parallel combination, does C2C2 store more energy than C1C1, or are the values equal?