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  2. RC time constant - Wikipedia

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    It is the time required to charge the capacitor, through the resistor, from an initial charge voltage of zero to approximately 63.2% of the value of an applied DC voltage, or to discharge the capacitor through the same resistor to approximately 36.8% of its initial charge voltage.

  3. Farad - Wikipedia

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    The statfarad (abbreviated statF) is a rarely used CGS unit equivalent to the capacitance of a capacitor with a charge of 1 statcoulomb across a potential difference of 1 statvolt. It is 1/(10 −5 c 2) farad, approximately 1.1126 picofarads. More commonly, the centimeter (cm) is used, which is equal to the statfarad.

  4. Capacitance - Wikipedia

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    Consider a capacitor of capacitance C, holding a charge +q on one plate and −q on the other. Moving a small element of charge dq from one plate to the other against the potential difference V = q/C requires the work dW: =, where W is the work measured in joules, q is the charge measured in coulombs and C is the capacitance, measured in farads ...

  5. Capacitor - Wikipedia

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    An ideal capacitor is characterized by a constant capacitance C, in farads in the SI system of units, defined as the ratio of the positive or negative charge Q on each conductor to the voltage V between them: [23] = A capacitance of one farad (F) means that one coulomb of charge on each conductor causes a voltage of one volt across the device. [25]

  6. Two capacitor paradox - Wikipedia

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    One of the capacitors is charged with a voltage of , the other is uncharged. When the switch is closed, some of the charge = on the first capacitor flows into the second, reducing the voltage on the first and increasing the voltage on the second. When a steady state is reached and the current goes to zero, the voltage on the two capacitors must ...

  7. Quantum capacitance - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, as the capacitor charges or discharges, the voltage changes at a different rate than the galvani potential difference. In these situations, one cannot calculate capacitance merely by looking at the overall geometry and using Gauss's law. One must also take into account the band-filling / band-emptying effect, related to the density ...

  8. Faraday constant - Wikipedia

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    One faraday of charge is the charge of one mole of elementary charges (or of negative one mole of electrons), that is, 1 faraday = F × 1 mol = 9.648 533 212 331 001 84 × 10 4 C. Conversely, the Faraday constant F equals 1 faraday per mole. The faraday is not to be confused with the farad, an unrelated unit of capacitance (1 farad = 1 coulomb ...

  9. Ćuk converter - Wikipedia

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    The capacitor C 1 is used to transfer energy. It is connected alternately to the input and to the output of the converter via the commutation of the transistor and the diode (see figures 2 and 3). The two inductors L 1 and L 2 are used to convert respectively the input voltage source (V s) and the output voltage (V o) into current sources. At a ...