With low frequency signals, little current flows in the capacitor, little voltage drop across the resistor, so most of the low frequency signal voltage appears on the capacitor. As you can see, filtering has already happened at that capacitor node, large low signal voltage with respect to ground, small high frqeuency voltage. Oh!
@BigBear The presence of that capacitor causes the high frequency current to flow to ground. That current causes a large voltage drop in the resistor feeding it, the voltage of the high frequency signal on that capacitor node is therefore very low.
The impedance ZC increases as we decrease frequency, so the voltage drop across the capacitor decreases when frequency is low. No, the voltage drop across a capacitor increases when the frequency of the current through it decreases. Doesn't that mean that the capacitor is letting through all the low frequency signals...
It turns out the capacitor blocked only very low frequency signals, between 0 Hz to about 0.5Hz, or 500 mHz. It will attenuate signals a little from about 0.5Hz to 3Hz. But after that, it no longer attenuates signals above 3Hz. Signals 4Hz and above go through completely unimpeded, unblocked and unattenuated.
The impedance of the capacitor drops as the frequency of the applied voltage rises, as you state, which means that it lets through higher frequency signals easier than lower frequency ones. In the first circuit, the capacitor is between the input and output, so high frequency signals will transfer between the input and output better.
If the frequency is high enough, the capacitor will barely charge/discharge, and most of the input voltage will be seen at the load, as if the capacitor didn't exist and was replaced with a wire. It basically let's through high frequencies.
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It turns out the capacitor blocked only very low frequency signals, between 0 Hz to about 0.5Hz, or 500 mHz. It will attenuate signals a little from about 0.5Hz to 3Hz. But after that, it no longer …
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