Question

State which of the two , the capacitor or an inductor , tends to become a short when the frequency of the applied alternating voltage has a very high value

Answer 1

i think capacitor because the reluctance of the capacitor is inversely proportional to the applied frequency

Answer 2

Hey !!

Among inductor and capacitor, the capacitor will acts short as high frequencies while will act open at low frequencies. So at high frequencies, capacitor has time to get a very less amount of charge while at low frequencies, there is a lot of time for capacitor to collect considerable amoutn of charge which shows presence of large reverse voltage. Hence the sum of the voltages of capacitor and ac source will be nearly zero which shows current also to be nearly zero.

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