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When an ideal capacitor is charged by a d.c. battery,no current flows.However,when an a.c. source is used,the current flows continously.How does one exlain this,based on the concept of displacement current.

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MODERN PUBLICATION-ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES-EXERCISE
  1. When an ideal capacitor is charged by a d.c. battery,no current flows....

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  2. Why did Maxwell introduce the concept of displacement current ?Explain...

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  3. What is displacement current?

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  4. What is displacement current?

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  5. Considering the case of a parallel plate capacitor being charged,tell ...

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  6. Show that the displacement current produced is equal to the conduction...

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  7. What is the source of displacement current?

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  8. A capacitor ,made of two parallel plates,each of area A and separaion ...

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  9. What are electromagnetic waves?

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  10. What are e.m. waves?How are they produced?

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  11. Draw a labelled diagram of Hertz's experiment set up to produce electr...

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  12. Explain with the help of a diagram, Hertz experiment for the productio...

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  13. Hertz,in his historical experiment ,produced stationary electromagneti...

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  14. Draw a labelled diagram of Hertz's experiment set up to produce electr...

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  15. The source of electromagnetic waves can be a charge.

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  16. How does a charge q oscillating at certain frequency produce electroma...

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  17. Why is it not possible to produce electro-megnetic waves in the visibl...

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  18. What are electromagnetic waves?

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  19. Prove that electromagnetic waves are transverse in nature.

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  20. What do you understand by electromagnetic waves? Give their important ...

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  21. What do you understand by electromagnetic waves? Give their important ...

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