Capacitance and capacitors

A capacitor is an important component in both digital and analogue electrical circuits. It allows for signal filtering and serves as a basic memory component. A capacitor is an electrically charged element that retains energy. A coil that stores energy in a magnetic field is known as an inductor. Capacitor  A capacitor is a device […]

Introduction Capacitor is a device which stores electrical energy. Capacitor is a system of two-conductors which carries charges of opposite sign but of equal magnitudes and separated by an insulating medium. The insulating area is either an electric insulator or vacuum like glass, paper, air,  semiconductor or dielectric. Uses of Capacitor Capacitors are used for

Parallel plate capacitors are capacitors with electrodes and insulating material which are arranged in a parallel (dielectric) pattern. The electrodes are two conductive plates. In between there is a dielectric. For plates, this acts as a divider. Parallel Plate The two plates of the parallel plate capacitor are similar in size. They are connected to

Capacitance is a property of an electric conductor or group of conductors determined by the number of separated electric charges carried in it per unit change of electrical potential. Capacitance involves the storing of electrical energy as well. When an electric charge is passed between two originally inert wires, both become evenly charged, one positively

Calculation of capacitance is a very simple formula. Before entering the calculation, it is important to understand the concept of calculation of capacitance. The calculation of capacitance means determining the capacitance by charge stored in the capacitor and its electric potential. Also, it is measured in farads.    How is the Calculation of Capacitance Performed?

Bubbles and Capillary rise Introduction: Surface tension is the energy or work required to raise the surface area of a liquid due to intermolecular forces. Because the liquid composition (e.g., water vs gasoline) and the solutes in the liquid (e.g., surfactants like detergent) influence these intermolecular pressures, each solution has different surface tension features. Surface

In this material, let us know the history of capacitors. In the month of October in 1745, German Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania noticed that charge can be collected in a specific amount of water in a handheld glass jar connected to a high-voltage electrostatic generator with the help of a wire. Von Kleist

Dielectrics, as a general rule, can be portrayed as materials that are extremely helpless conveyors of electric flow. They are essentially protectors and contain no free electrons. Dielectrics can be effortlessly spellbound when an electric field is applied to them. Along these lines, their conduct in an electric field is altogether unique in relation to