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An electric lamp connected in series with capacitor and an a.c. source is glowing with certain beightness. How does the brightness of the lamp change on reducing the capacitance ?

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Brightness of the lamp decreases. This is because on reducing `C, X_(C)` increases Z increases and I decreases.
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