Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-physics-2-paper-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/10/b/solution

The voltage divider relation for the capacitor output gives the transfer function
Consequently the relative wave amplitude is
For input , the output is , where the continuous phase shift is
For positive frequency and , this phase shift goes from towards , passing through at . A one-argument arctangent without a quadrant correction would wrongly predict a positive phase shift above . The capacitor follows a slowly varying input voltage, while its output falls as at high frequency.

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