Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
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Chapter 12.4, Problem 7CC
You have four 60-nanofarad [nF] capacitors. Using two or more of these capacitors in parallel or series, how many different equivalent capacitances can you form that are greater than 110 nF? Show the circuits for each such connection and list the resulting capacitances.
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