The idea behind the question is to determine which one of the two - capacitor or inductor will drive the current in the circuit when connected in a specific way.
Say I have a circuit in which I have saturated inductor and then I connect a charged capacitor to this saturated inductor. (Here, saturated inductor means a circuit which possesses the maximum energy it can hold in its magnetic field.)
Now, the inductor would have had the current moving in some particular direction through it for it to get saturated ( say A to B).And the capacitor would also have its positive and negative plates as per how it was charged (let C be the positive plate and D the negative plate.)
Now,will the current flow through the circuit (after the key is opened as the function of that circuit was to saturate the inductor) due to the inductor - keeping with the inductor's characteristic to keep the direction of current through it constant. If this is true, then the inductor will charge an already charged capacitor?
Or, will the capacitor discharge and charge the already saturated inductor?
The main doubts here are:
- What decides the priority? That is, what is the factor that decides if the capacitor or the inductor will 'win' and be the one deciding the current flow.
2.Also, is this dependent on the capacitance or inductance values? That is, is there some value of capacitance or inductance that will override the priority(?).