The current lags the source voltage in a series RC circuit.

More Questions from RC Circuits

• If the resistor drops 6 V and the capacitor drops 8 V in a series RC circuit, the source voltage equals 10 V.
• The magnitude of the impedance in the given circuit is approximately 500 Ω.
• Resistance is the same as impedance in an RC circuit.
• In parallel RC circuits, the larger the value of C, the larger the phase angle.
• If the bandwidth of an RC low-pass filter is 20 kHz, the cutoff frequency is also 20 kHz.
• A 10 kΩ capacitive reactance equals a 100 µS capacitive susceptance.
• The output voltage from an RC high-pass filter increases as the frequency decreases.
• When a series RC circuit is used as a low-pass filter, the output is taken from across the capacitor.
• If a 100 Ω resistance is connected to a 100 Ω capacitive reactance in a series RC circuit, the impedance equals 200 Ω.
• If the frequency increases in a parallel RC circuit, the phase angle decreases.

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