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RE: Impedance, Mechanical, Electrical



Original poster: "alfred erpel" <alfred@xxxxxxxxx>



What a great succinct summation.  Your explanation makes it clear that
capacitors store a charge.

And to elaborate, 6.241... x 10^18 elementary charges = 1 coulomb.  The
energy of a given amount of stored coulombs varys linearly with the voltage
it is stored with.  E = .5 * Q * V

Al Erpel


[stuff snipped]

> A charged body works as a single plate of a capacitor.
> The exact amount of opposite charge is distributed in other
> objects around it.

> A capacitor stores equal amounts of opposite charges, separated.


> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz