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Current impulse is not nearly as interesting as voltage impulse. @user29568, a capacitor acts as short circuit in two different limits: (1) as an AC short circuit as the frequency goes to infinity and (2) as an actual short circuit (assuming the capacitor is uncharged) as C goes to infinity.
As soon as the capacitor is short-circuited, it starts discharging. Let us assume, the voltage of the capacitor at fully charged condition is V volt. As soon as the capacitor is short-circuited, the discharging current of the circuit would be – V / R ampere.
The vertical wire drawn next to the vertical capacitor shorts the two terminals of the capacitor. Any current flowing through this circuit segment will flow through the vertical wire and completely bypass the vertical capacitor due to the short. This means you can ignore the shorted capacitor -- it has no effect on the circuit.
In "real life", a circuit diagram would not normally include a permanent wire connecting both ends of a capacitor. A short circuit here means that there is no resistance (impedance) between the two terminals of the shorted capacitor. The vertical wire drawn next to the vertical capacitor shorts the two terminals of the capacitor.
By having their shorted terminals, the voltage thereof is zero (more precisely, the potential difference between them), so that this element is not operational in the circuit, and can be removed for analysis. The other two capacitors are in series, hence that:
An open circuit will not admit any current even when a voltage is applied whereas a capacitor will accept arbitrarily high currents with the voltage only changing over time in response to currents. @user107063 indeed. it's a vast simplification of a complex situation.
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