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Past exam of the physics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Section B 8 b Solution by
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The original diagram has a series circuit containing and , in parallel with ; it is not three separate parallel components. The electrical admittance is thereforeFor , voltage and current are in phase when the imaginary part of vanishes. Excluding the zero-frequency solution, division by givesA nonzero lossy parallel coil resonance exists only if . With , and ,For zero electrical resistance, the ideal parallel inductor-capacitor cancellation occurs atThe fractional reduction relative to the zero-resistance coil isAt exactly and , , so finite applied voltage draws zero net current in the ideal model. The quoted frequency is the limiting parallel-resonance value; the phase of an exactly zero current is undefined.
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