5. A battery is attached across several capacitors connected in series. Which of

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5. A battery is attached across several capacitors connected in series. Which of the following statements are true? a) All the capacitors have the same charge, and the equivalent capacitance is less than the b) All the capacitors have the same charge, and the equivalent capacitance is greater than ) The capacitor with the largest capacitance carried the largest charge capacitance of any of the individual capacitors in the group rs in the group. d) The potential difference across each capacitor must be the same.

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as the capacitors are connected in series

all the capacitors will have the same charge but the potential on them will be different if the capacitance is different

and as the equivalent capacitance is

1/Ceq = 1/C1 + 1/C2 + ...

hence , Ceq is less than all other capacitance

the correct option is a)

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