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Natural Sciences · Intermediate
Capacitors & RC Circuits
Put a resistor and a capacitor together and you get a circuit with a sense of time. Watch capacitors charge and discharge exponentially, find the time constant that governs it, see how RC circuits filter high and low frequencies, meet capacitors at work in memory chips, touchscreens and power supplies, and find out how much energy they store and how they're built.
7 lessons~35 min0/7 complete
Start courseHelpful background: Electricity & Circuits
1
Charging and Discharging
The time constant.
2
Capacitors and Frequency
Filters and everyday uses.
3
Inside the Capacitor
Stored energy and how capacitors are built.