USAPhO 2018, Полуфинал — Задача 2. Question A2
USA Physics Olympiad Exam — Part A / Part B · 25 т.
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Условие
For this problem, graphical answers should be drawn on the answer sheets graphs provided. Supporting work is to be written on blank answer sheets. Incorrect graphs without supporting work will receive no partial credit.
The current as a function of voltage for a certain electrical device is
where is the magnitude of the charge on an electron, is Boltzmann's constant, and is the absolute temperature. and are non-zero positive constants. Throughout this problem assume low temperature values .
a. On the answer sheets, sketch a graph of the current versus voltage for low temperature values , clearly indicating any asymptotic behavior.
Shown is a schematic for the device. Positive voltage means that the electric potential of the left hand side of the device is higher than the right hand side. For this device, and .

Below is a circuit made up of these elements. The voltage supplied the circuit is sinusoidal, , and is also shown on answer sheets. The resistance is and .

b. Sketch the potential difference as a function of time on the answer sheet. For your convenience, is shown in light gray. Assume that has been running for a long time.
A capacitor is connected to the circuit as shown below. The capacitance is .

c. Sketch the new potential difference as a function of time on the answer sheet. For your convenience, is shown in light gray. Assume that has been running for a long time.
Answer Sheets
Following are answer sheets for some of the graphical portions of the test.
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Question A2 — a. Sketch a graph of the current versus voltage for low temperature values , clearly indicating any asymptotic behavior.

Student AAPT ID #: ____________________
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Question A2 — b. Sketch the potential difference as a function of time. For your convenience, is shown in light gray. Assume that has been running for a long time. There is no capacitor in this circuit!

Student AAPT ID #: ____________________
Proctor AAPT ID #: ____________________
Question A2 — c. Sketch the potential difference as a function of time. For your convenience, is shown in light gray. Assume that has been running for a long time. There is a capacitor in this circuit!

Решение
a.
The current is simply proportional to , which is a shifted exponential. Then always has the same sign as , and vanishes when vanishes. The current grows quickly for high and approaches a constant for low .
This answer is acceptable, but we can use the condition to simplify the graph. For negative , we have
which is extremely small. For positive , we have
which is extremely small when and extremely large when . Then
as shown below. Accounting for finite temperature, which is not necessary for full credit, simply rounds the corners in all of the graphs.

b.
When , no current flows. When , current begins to flow, with each diode subtracting a potential difference of . Note that the current flows in the same direction for both positive and negative . This device is a rectifier.

c.
Let the voltage on the capacitor be . Whenever , current flows through the diodes, charging the capacitor up to voltage . Whenever , no current flows through the diodes, and the capacitor and resistor simply discharge as an RC circuit with time constant .
Since is much longer than the timescale on the answer sheets, the discharge is approximately linear, with
Thus the capacitor charges completely to every cycle, then discharges approximately linearly by about a half volt during the reminder of the cycle. On the graph we show charging as red and discharging as blue.

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