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1. Capacitance - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance
Description: WEBCapacitance is the capability of a material object or device to store electric charge. It is measured by the charge in response to a difference in electric potential, expressed as the ratio of those quantities. Commonly recognized are two closely related notions of capacitance: self capacitance and mutual capacitance.
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2. Capacitance | Definition, Formula, Unit, & Facts | Britannica
Link: https://www.britannica.com/science/capacitance
Description: WEBMar 8, 2024 · capacitance, property of an electric conductor, or set of conductors, that is measured by the amount of separated electric charge that can be stored on it per unit change in electrical potential. Capacitance also implies an associated storage of electrical energy.
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3. 8.2: Capacitors and Capacitance - Physics LibreTexts
Link: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/University_Physics_(OpenStax)/Book%3A_University_Physics_II_-_Thermodynamics_Electricity_and_Magnetism_(OpenStax)/08%3A_Capacitance/8.02%3A_Capacitors_and_Capacitance
Description: WEBSep 12, 2022 · In other words, capacitance is the largest amount of charge per volt that can be stored on the device: C = Q V (8.2.1) (8.2.1) C = Q V. The SI unit of capacitance is the farad ( F F ), named after Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Since capacitance is the charge per unit voltage, one farad is one coulomb per one volt, or.
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4. What is Capacitance? | Fluke
Link: https://www.fluke.com/en-us/learn/blog/electrical/what-is-capacitance
Description: WEBCapacitance is the ability of a component or circuit to collect and store energy in the form of an electrical charge. Capacitors are energy-storing devices available in many sizes and shapes. They consist of two plates of conducting material (usually a thin metal) sandwiched between an insulator made of ceramic, film, glass or other materials ...
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5. 8.1 Capacitors and Capacitance - University Physics Volume 2
Link: https://openstax.org/books/university-physics-volume-2/pages/8-1-capacitors-and-capacitance
Description: WEBThe amount of storage in a capacitor is determined by a property called capacitance, which you will learn more about a bit later in this section. Capacitors have applications ranging from filtering static from radio reception to energy storage in heart defibrillators.
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6. Capacitance (video) | Circuits | Khan Academy
Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/circuits-topic/circuits-with-capacitors/v/capacitance
Description: WEBExplore the relationship between voltage and charge in capacitors. This tutorial illuminates the concept of capacitance, demonstrating how it's directly proportional to voltage. Learn how to calculate voltage differences, understand the electric field's role, and grasp the significance of the permittivity of free space. . Created by Sal Khan.
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7. 2.4: Capacitance - Physics LibreTexts
Link: https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis/UCD%3A_Physics_9C__Electricity_and_Magnetism/2%3A_Electrostatic_Energy/2.4%3A_Capacitance
Description: WEBDefinition of Capacitance. Imagine for a moment that we have two neutrally-charged but otherwise arbitrary conductors, separated in space. From one of these conductors we remove a handful of charge (say \(-Q\)), and place it on the other conductor. Figure 2.4.1 – Charge Separated to Two Conductors
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8. 8: Capacitance - Physics LibreTexts
Link: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/University_Physics_(OpenStax)/Book%3A_University_Physics_II_-_Thermodynamics_Electricity_and_Magnetism_(OpenStax)/08%3A_Capacitance
Description: WEB8.2: Capacitors and Capacitance. A capacitor is a device used to store electrical charge and electrical energy. It consists of at least two electrical conductors separated by a distance. (Note that such electrical conductors are sometimes referred to as “electrodes,” but more correctly, they are “capacitor plates.”)
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9. Capacitors and capacitance (video) | Khan Academy
Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/circuits-topic/circuits-with-capacitors/v/capacitors-and-capacitance
Description: WEBThe actual definition of capacitance is summarized by this formula. Capacitance equals the charge stored on a capacitor, divided by the voltage across that capacitor. Even though technically the net charge on a capacitor is 0, because it stores just as much positive charge as it does negative charge.
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10. Introduction to Capacitors, Capacitance and Charge
Link: https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/capacitor/cap_1.html
Description: WEBCapacitance is the electrical property of a capacitor and is the measure of a capacitors ability to store an electrical charge onto its two plates with the unit of capacitance being the Farad (abbreviated to F) named after the British physicist Michael Faraday.