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  2. Motor capacitor - Wikipedia

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    A motor capacitor [1] [2] is an electrical capacitor that alters the current to one or more windings of a single-phase alternating-current induction motor to create a rotating magnetic field. [ citation needed ] There are two common types of motor capacitors, start capacitor and run capacitor (including a dual run capacitor ).

  3. Biefeld–Brown effect - Wikipedia

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    There have been follow-ups on the claims that this force can be produced in a full vacuum, meaning it is an unknown anti-gravity force, and not just the more well known ion wind. As part of a study in 1990, U.S. Air Force researcher R. L. Talley conducted a test on a Biefeld–Brown-style capacitor to replicate the effect in a vacuum. [12]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Parasitic capacitance - Wikipedia

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    When two conductors at different potentials are close to one another, they are affected by each other's electric field and store opposite electric charges, forming a capacitor. [1] Changing the potential V {\displaystyle V} between the conductors requires a current i {\displaystyle i} into or out of the conductors to charge or discharge them: [ 2 ]

  6. Capacitor - Wikipedia

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    Squeezing the dielectric can change a capacitor at a few tens of bar pressure sufficiently that it can be used as a pressure sensor. [83] A selected, but otherwise standard, polymer dielectric capacitor, when immersed in a compatible gas or liquid, can work usefully as a very low cost pressure sensor up to many hundreds of bar.

  7. RC time constant - Wikipedia

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    The following formulae use it, assuming a constant voltage applied across the capacitor and resistor in series, to determine the voltage across the capacitor against time: Charging toward applied voltage (initially zero voltage across capacitor, constant V 0 across resistor and capacitor together) V 0 : V ( t ) = V 0 ( 1 − e − t / τ ...

  8. Dielectric absorption - Wikipedia

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    Dielectric absorption is the name given to the effect by which a capacitor, that has been charged for a long time, discharges only incompletely when briefly discharged.. Although an ideal capacitor would remain at zero volts after being discharged, real capacitors will develop a small voltage from time-delayed dipole discharging, [1] a phenomenon that is also called dielectric relaxation ...

  9. Applications of capacitors - Wikipedia

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    A capacitor can store electric energy when it is connected to its charging circuit and when it is disconnected from its charging circuit, it can dissipate that stored energy, so it can be used as a temporary battery. Capacitors are commonly used in electronic devices to maintain power supply while batteries are being changed.