Capacitors

Getting into this new unit, there are new concepts for us to learn. Capacitance is the ability of an object to store an electrical charge.  Any object that can be electrically charged shows capacitance.   Capacitance is directly proportional to the surface area of the conductor plates.  Capacitors are the things used to store an electric charge, they are consisted of one or more pairs of conductors separated by a non-conductive region called a dielectric. The bigger the plates on the conductors, the more capacitance there is.  Its also inversely proportional to the distance to the separation between the plates.  The shorter the distance, the higher the capacitance. The further the distance the smaller/lower the capacitance. The energy of a capacitor is equal to the work done to charge it. Capacitors are represented by the equation C= Q/V.