Consider a capacitor and resistor connected in series to a sinusoidal voltage source. The voltage across the capacitor lags the voltage across the resistor by an angle θ degrees. What is the value of θ?

Consider a capacitor and resistor connected in series to a sinusoidal voltage source. The voltage across the capacitor lags the voltage across the resistor by an angle θ degrees. What is the value of θ? Correct Answer +90

In series RC circuit, the same current flows through R and C.

Let the current is I, voltage across capacitor and resistor are VC and VR respectively.

I is in phase with voltage across resistor (VR) and leads the voltage across capacitor (VC) by 90°.

Hence voltage across resistor (VR) leads the voltage across capacitor (VC) by 90°.

In other words, the voltage across the capacitor lags the resistor voltage by 90°.

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