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What is the primary function of a capacitor?
To store
charge
in a
circuit
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What two factors determine how much charge a capacitor can store?
The
potential difference
and capacitance
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What is capacitance?
Measure of
charge
stored per unit
potential
difference
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What is the equation for capacitance?
C
=
Q
/
V
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What does the area under a capacitor's charge-potential graph represent?
The
energy stored
by a capacitor
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What does the
gradient
of a capacitor's charge-p.d. graph represent?
Capacitance
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What are the three equations to calculate the
energy
stored by a capacitor?
W =
1/2
Q
x
V
W =
1/2
C
x
V^2
W =
1/2
Q^2
x
C
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What does a charge-time graph for charging a capacitor look like?
It shows an
exponential
increase in charge
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What does the gradient of a charge-time graph represent?
The
rate of charge increase
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What does a current-time graph for charging a capacitor look like?
It shows an
exponential
decrease in current
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What does the area under a current-time graph represent?
The total
charge
transferred
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What does a voltage-time graph for charging a capacitor look like?
It shows an
exponential
increase in voltage
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What value is given by the product of resistance and capacitance?
The
time constant
of the circuit
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What does the time constant of a circuit indicate?
Time to reach
63%
charge and
37%
discharge
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What is the unit of Capacitance?
F (
Farads
)
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