Circuits: Capacitors

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Chapter 26 Circuits: Capacitors

In this chapter you will learn about capacitors in circuits.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

Relate the capacitance of a circuit to the stored charge and the electric potential difference.
Determine the energy stored in a capacitor.
Determine the equivalent capacitance of a circuit.
Use Kirchhoff’s Laws to quantify the behavior of a complicated circuit.
Describe the behavior of simple RC circuits qualitatively and quantitatively.

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