3 D.C. Capacitors & Capacitance
TOPIC LINKS Emf & Cells - Kirchhoff's Laws - Electric Fields - Capacitance & Capacitors - Electromagnetism - Induction & Inductors
AC electricity - AC waves peak & RMS - AC Phasors - AC & Capacitors - AC & Inductors - RCL & resonance
Capacitors & Capacitance
Charging & Discharging
Capacitors in DC circuits
Summary & questions
Answers to questions
PDF of the FULL TEXT Electrostatics & DC Capacitors 24 pages (2024 version)
Author : K.Barrett MInstP Licence : CC-BY-ND
Also available for download from thr TES website Teaching resource 12925306
Audience : Secondary Physics Year 12+ (Level 3 NCEA)
Content: Electrostatics History - Electric Fields, energy stored & field strength - Parallel plate capacitors - Capacitance - The capacitor equation - Charging and discharging - current & voltage graphs - Time constant - Capacitors in series & parallel