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Physics electric circuit problem?

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a emf source, a resistor, and a capacitor are connected in a series circuit. when the capacitor becomes fully charged, and its potential drop equals that of the emf, what happens to the potential of the resistor?

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  1. The first guy was right.


  2. If Thevenin was right, and I know he was, the sum of the voltages in a closed loop is zero.  So if the capacitor has all the voltage, then the resistor is left with none.  Vcap + Vres = EMF.


  3. Current goes to zero. No voltage drop = no current.

  4. Theoretically voltage acrosses resistor is zero,however as you do such experiment,you never obtain a zero volt acrossing the resistor. Because the capacitor always has a very very small leakage,therefore a very very small charging current continues to charge the capacitor to compensate the leakage.

    The answer is:

    Close to zero volt but never reach zero volt.

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