Defibrillators are medical devices that use electricity to initiate a normal heartbeat. Suppose one defibrillator uses a 24μF capacitor.
a. A typical defibrillator delivers about 300 joules of energy during discharge. For this 24μF capacitor, how much voltage should the capacitor have in order to deliver this much energy?
b. Suppose you wanted to decrease the amount of energy this defibrillator could deliver by incorporating another capacitor into the circuit. In what way should you implement this new capacitor into the existing circuit?
c. You incorporate a 12μF capacitor into the system in the way you decided in the previous part. If you use the same amount of voltage you determined in part (a) with this new capacitor system, how much energy can this modified defibrillator deliver during discharge?