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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of electromagnetism equations - Wikipedia

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    Continuous charge distribution. The volume charge density ρ is the amount of charge per unit volume (cube), surface charge density σ is amount per unit surface area (circle) with outward unit normal n̂, d is the dipole moment between two point charges, the volume density of these is the polarization density P.

  5. Capacitor - Wikipedia

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    Actual charges – electrons – cannot pass through the dielectric of an ideal capacitor. [note 1] Rather, one electron accumulates on the negative plate for each one that leaves the positive plate, resulting in an electron depletion and consequent positive charge on one electrode that is equal and opposite to the accumulated negative charge ...

  6. 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.

  7. Parasitic capacitance - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Stray capacitances are often drawn with dashed lines. This equivalent circuit of part of a Tesla coil has stray capacitance between each winding and one to ground. Parasitic capacitance or stray capacitance is the unavoidable and usually unwanted capacitance that exists between the parts of an electronic component or circuit simply ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...