Splung.com: Capacitors

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written by Carl Hepburn

This web page explains the structure of capacitors and how they function. Topics covered include the energy of charging, capacitor circuits, dielectrics, and RC circuits. There are interactive flash simulations of the charging and discharging capacitors.

This is a part of an online tutorial in physics at http://www.splung.com/main.php

http://www.splung.com/content/sid/3/page/capacitors

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - Capacitance	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Tutorial

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2007 splung.com
Keywords:: Capacitance, Capacitor circuit, RC Circuit, capacitor, charging a capacitor, dielectric
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created March 30, 2007 by Carl Hepburn
Record Updated:: July 22, 2007 by Cathy Ezrailson
Last Update when Cataloged:: July 13, 2007
Other Collections:: The PSRC

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