Chapter 11.4
Capacitors in Circuits
Close the switch and the capacitor behaves like a plain wire; wait, and it behaves like a broken one. Everything interesting about the circuit happens in between.
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By the end
- 01Combine capacitors in series and in parallel into an equivalent capacitance
- 02Describe charging and discharging qualitatively, with the time constant marking the pace
- 03Compute an RC circuit's currents and charges the instant a switch closes and long after