This problem concerns the electric circuit shown in the figure below.

figure of a circuit with a capacitor, inductor and resistor in series.

A charged capacitor connected to an inductor causes a current to flow through the inductor until the capacitor is fully discharged. The current in the inductor, in turn, charges up the capacitor until the capacitor is fully charged again. If is the charge on the capacitor at time , and is the current, then

If the circuit resistance is zero, then the charge and the current in the circuit satisfy the differential equation where is the capacitance and is the inductance, so Then, just as as a spring can have a damping force which affects its motion, so can a circuit; this is introduced by the resistor, so that if the resistance of the resistor is ,

If henry, ohm, and farads, find a formula for the charge when
(a) and :

(b) and :

You can earn partial credit on this problem.