Capacitors - GCSE & A-level Physics

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00:00 Intro
04:14 Capacitance & Q=VC graph
06:07 Energy stored
07:26 Charging & discharging graphs
08:20 Decay equation (exponential)
09:12 Time constant
10:32 Capacitors in series & parallel
11:40 Capacitance equation & dielectrics -
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    @jenellealvares14923 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

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    Жыл бұрын

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    @catneil5755

    6 ай бұрын

    🤣

  • @ScienceShorts
    @ScienceShorts5 жыл бұрын

    Please ignore my comment about energy being 1/2QV due to resistance - nonsense!

  • @Annie-xb8xx

    @Annie-xb8xx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wait so what is the correct reason then? Why is it 1/2QV not QV? And why is it the area under the graph not just the charge at that point multiplied by the potential difference at that point?

  • @Annie-xb8xx

    @Annie-xb8xx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sorry if the answer is really obvious, we haven't been taught capacitance yet.

  • @Player-zq3pe

    @Player-zq3pe

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Annie-xb8xx It's probably derived using differentiation.

  • @joshuaosei5628

    @joshuaosei5628

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's because of the fact that the original E = QV assumes charge and voltage are constant, but they are not. Obviously to charge up a capacitor, you would need to have started at 0 and then increase as you supply it with voltage. It's the average.

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    @Quiyum

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @brianchan66565 жыл бұрын

    Good luck for everybody sitting A level Physics in 9 days time :)))

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    @haatib42

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gonna need it

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    @adamgibson8295

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Matthew Briggs it did the one about a about parallel plates, wtf

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    @saifmohamed9642

    4 жыл бұрын

    12 hours*

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    @a5hh

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @lennynganga4361

    3 жыл бұрын

    How about 2hours?

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    @setheverman66802 жыл бұрын

    8 days till my physics paper 2 and even though this topic isn't in the advance info watching this video made me feel extra prepared for the curveball I know is gonna come. thanks

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

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    @puddleduck1405

    Жыл бұрын

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    Жыл бұрын

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    noticed most of these top comments are years old, just wanted to say there is new blood coming here too! These videos will never stop helping years of under taught kids

  • @joelmaddix-asiamah9006
    @joelmaddix-asiamah90066 жыл бұрын

    One of the best videos I’ve seen on capacitance

  • @arghoacharjee6602
    @arghoacharjee66027 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for the video! I struggled with it a lot but now it is as clear as it can be!

  • @h027s
    @h027s3 жыл бұрын

    I always appreciate that you explain things differently so I can have 2 sets of notes on the same topic :)))

  • @seasnek7024
    @seasnek70244 жыл бұрын

    Hey man thanks for that vid! You just explained how to derive those formulas so much more simply than my lectures do

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    @riajenson54852 жыл бұрын

    bro where would we all be without you? I started to get so demotivated because my teacher teaches solely through equations with no derivations or real explanations. It's been bugging me so much why half of the energy was just disregarded but now I get it. Thanks so much!

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    @ScienceShorts

    6 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

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    @gracie_a5 жыл бұрын

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    @fabriziolavini7457 Жыл бұрын

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    @Jade-ot9rs5 жыл бұрын

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    @bBenzopyrrole

    8 ай бұрын

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    @Dinklepuffus2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliantly explained, thank you!

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    @danielb1500

    5 жыл бұрын

    Zeyn which exam board are you

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    @zeyn4792

    5 жыл бұрын

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    6 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    5 жыл бұрын

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    @johnpaul4301

    5 жыл бұрын

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    @GT-tj1qg5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video. By the way, I think the most common way to denote the time constant is using tau.

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    @georgeacres46 жыл бұрын

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    @agayaverma2 жыл бұрын

    In 15 min this guys literally explained what my teacher couldn't explain in 2 weeks.

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    @joshvir2625 жыл бұрын

    here for last minute revision

  • @munishmusic
    @munishmusic5 жыл бұрын

    When you increase distance between the plates whilst a battery is connected, you're still putting work so would the energy increase slightly but resultantly decrease?

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    @mr.deadeye38435 жыл бұрын

    Can you please make a video on graphs related to magnetic flux in a transformer and hall probe?!

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    @TheRAj64566 жыл бұрын

    you are better than my teacher jeez

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    @mohamedalinajib63336 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful. thank you.

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    @thesorewinner2418

    6 жыл бұрын

    so, we meet again

  • @kuchbatein6925
    @kuchbatein69252 жыл бұрын

    at 2:00 you make the switch which is open it doesn't mean the electrons cant flow back to the +side of the capacitor?

  • @mahimshahriar7346
    @mahimshahriar73464 жыл бұрын

    Why does the current decrease exponentially as the capacitor gets charged and discharged could you please elaborate that? Would be a great help TIA.

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    @mscmasterofscience53764 жыл бұрын

    l watched your video, also I made some electronic using proteus 8, thanks.

  • @simonhadfield8540
    @simonhadfield85405 жыл бұрын

    7:20 I honestly don't know what I'm talking about but what about a superconducting circuit. I wonder whether energy stored would increase to near QV

  • @liamfinley723

    @liamfinley723

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s what I was thinking

  • @bamgb8811

    @bamgb8811

    Жыл бұрын

    I assume that because superconductors repel magnetic feilds, the capacitor would just act as a break in the circuit. Because the magnetic repulsion from the negative plate won’t be able to repel the electrons from the positively charged plate meaning there would be no current in that half of the circuit and the other half would be a dead end

  • @aliaaatta8498
    @aliaaatta84985 жыл бұрын

    love your videos but ive got a question :why does the capacitor discharge slowly in the rectified ac current

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because it is discharged through a resistor, different from charging.

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    @henron12826 жыл бұрын

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  • @Arun-Singh
    @Arun-Singh5 жыл бұрын

    13:30 nice voice over :0

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    @ScienceShorts

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seamless ADR

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    @I3uzzzzzz6 жыл бұрын

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  • @muhammadshaheer4848
    @muhammadshaheer48485 жыл бұрын

    In a certain question, it required to find area under the exponential graph of current/time .. how can I calculate this?

  • @jayantkalyan9215

    @jayantkalyan9215

    5 жыл бұрын

    intergrate the function

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    @marklovett54775 жыл бұрын

    These videos are great!!! - can you do some on OCR A-level chemistry if thats possible :) Thanks

  • @user-tz1wb2gt7n
    @user-tz1wb2gt7n2 жыл бұрын

    Hi I was just wondering at the end why is charge constant when the battery is disconnected? Is that assuming the the charge of the plates has got maximum charge /capacitance?

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    If the capacitor is disconnected, where could the charge go?

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    @xxpowerxx4076 жыл бұрын

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    @5ghuffer9475 жыл бұрын

    Lads good luck for the final exam

  • @unfriedintrovertnugget5835
    @unfriedintrovertnugget5835 Жыл бұрын

    Can you explain safe pd?

  • @fardeenhassan833
    @fardeenhassan8333 жыл бұрын

    Where did the equation E=0.5Q/C² COME FROM

  • @minecraftdecoded
    @minecraftdecoded4 жыл бұрын

    *Dialectric* i love this!

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    4 жыл бұрын

    I always make that mistake! 🙄

  • @minecraftdecoded

    @minecraftdecoded

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ScienceShorts you make the mistake of replying after 3 months😂😂😂😂😂😂 JK!

  • @joedobson63
    @joedobson636 жыл бұрын

    where does the equation at 14:22 come from?

  • @ThePS3Beast109

    @ThePS3Beast109

    6 жыл бұрын

    rearrange the earlier Q=VC for V=Q/C, put it in E=0.5xQV to get E=0.5xQx(Q/C), which is the same as E=0.5xQ^2/C

  • @sachinsolanki7329
    @sachinsolanki73295 жыл бұрын

    U legend

  • @benatkinson3160
    @benatkinson31604 жыл бұрын

    0:23 why does the battery take electrons from one plate to the other?

  • @hoodedvenom3987

    @hoodedvenom3987

    3 жыл бұрын

    One side has electrons (negative charge) the other side has a lack of electrons (positive charge). The electrons are attracted to the positive plate as it's oppositely charged and therefore flow towards it.

  • @susbat7787
    @susbat77873 жыл бұрын

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  • @jerrysmith5281
    @jerrysmith52816 жыл бұрын

    The AQA spec says you need to be able to describe the action of a simple polar molecule that rotates in the presence of an electric field. I'm not sure what this means and I don't think this video covered it?

  • @instahswap

    @instahswap

    6 жыл бұрын

    I just revised this, so I can give you a brief description. Basically, the particles in a dialectric are called polar molecules, which means they have a positive and a negative end. Normally, these particles are jumbled up and facing in random directions, but when charge is created across the capacitor around them, an electric field is created. As you know, each side of the capacitor has an opposing charge, so each of the particles in the dialectric orientates themself, so that the positive end faces the negative end and vice versa. When this happens, each one of these particles has an electric field as they themselves have a difference in charge by virtue of being orientated, but because they're facing in the opposite direction to the capacitors electric field, it's an opposing electric field, which causes the overall electric field to decrease - this means that a lower voltage is needed to charge the capacitor, which in turn increases the capacitance through C = Q/V (i.e. as V decreases, C increases). Hope I was of help :)

  • @jerrysmith5281

    @jerrysmith5281

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! It's something that wasn't covered by my teacher so I was a bit confused when reviewing the specification

  • @muhammad.husnain6819
    @muhammad.husnain68195 жыл бұрын

    why does current decrease when capacitor discharges

  • @gabriellaashong

    @gabriellaashong

    5 жыл бұрын

    Muhammad. Husnain the charge moves to the positive plate. The charge moving to the positive plate decreases as time increases and as I=q/t, the current will decrease as a result. I hope that helps

  • @lindadada-dadadal9864
    @lindadada-dadadal98646 жыл бұрын

    Professor I thought the energy is half because it doesn't start with q and v, but dq and dv? Like the calculus?

  • @ayoutubechannelname

    @ayoutubechannelname

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're right.

  • @Annie-xb8xx

    @Annie-xb8xx

    4 жыл бұрын

    can someone explain this to me? what does d mean?

  • @ghazalaahmed4600
    @ghazalaahmed46006 жыл бұрын

    Please post explanation of CIE syllabus Chapter 25 - Electronics Seems like you've missed it. I'm really struggling in it and need help in amplifiers and sensing devices.

  • @hasnaiqbal2870

    @hasnaiqbal2870

    5 жыл бұрын

    same. did you find any other videos on it?

  • @mikey10006
    @mikey100065 жыл бұрын

    Capacitors are the most interesting things in the world to me idk why

  • @ouropinionsmatter9898
    @ouropinionsmatter98982 жыл бұрын

    He sounds like Thor (Chris Hemsworth) but with a thinner voice

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thinner?!

  • @ouropinionsmatter9898

    @ouropinionsmatter9898

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ScienceShorts Thor's voice, is the same as yours but a little thicker. I mean the accent, the speaking style sounds almost the same but his voice is a little lower pitched than yours you could say... anyways, I'm just glad I got a reply from you... unreal moment for me

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can put it on like he does if that's what you want 😂

  • @ouropinionsmatter9898

    @ouropinionsmatter9898

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @akshayanmuraleetharan2103
    @akshayanmuraleetharan21033 жыл бұрын

    why does current reduce when a capacitor charges?

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cuz it gets full...

  • @peternunez_838
    @peternunez_8382 жыл бұрын

    Why does disconnecting the battery create a constant charge? I don't know if you still reply on these older videos

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because where would the charge go?

  • @nafsirrahman5460
    @nafsirrahman5460 Жыл бұрын

    Does this topic come in edexcel A level physics? My edexcel cgp revision guide doesnt cover capacitors.

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    Жыл бұрын

    No, it's not in Edexcel.

  • @Fran-hu2gw

    @Fran-hu2gw

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ScienceShorts It is. It is in the electric and magnetic fields section of Edexcel.

  • @kaumudieathukorale1255
    @kaumudieathukorale12556 жыл бұрын

    At 10:27 did you PUT ln accidentally or SAY log accidentally because I'm a bit confused ..

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Kaumudie Athukorale saying "log" is correct for both natural log (ln or "lun") as well as log (base 10)

  • @kaumudieathukorale1255

    @kaumudieathukorale1255

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ahh, thanks

  • @bradleytemple6237
    @bradleytemple62375 жыл бұрын

    Using the equation Q=Q0e^-t/RC, if the capacitor is initially uncharged i.e Q0 = 0, then surely the equation doesn't work, as for all values of t, Q will be 0. Can somebody please explain this?

  • @BO2Letsplay

    @BO2Letsplay

    5 жыл бұрын

    Charging and pd follow the equation Q = Q0 (1-e^-t/RC)

  • @Annie-xb8xx

    @Annie-xb8xx

    4 жыл бұрын

    can someone explain to me what e is

  • @hoodedvenom3987

    @hoodedvenom3987

    3 жыл бұрын

    Q0 is max charge- Q is the charge at a given time. When t=0, Q=Q0(1-e^-0/RC), Q=Q0(1-1), Q=Q0x0=0

  • @attalshamsheryousafzay1743
    @attalshamsheryousafzay17433 жыл бұрын

    At 1:56 the circuit is not complete and glow the bulb

  • @vdabest2118
    @vdabest21184 жыл бұрын

    What happened at 13:33? 🤔

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    4 жыл бұрын

    I said less accidentally 🙄

  • @joestinton7838
    @joestinton78386 жыл бұрын

    8:38

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    @ThePS3Beast109

    6 жыл бұрын

    god dammit

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    @gideoncrew85006 жыл бұрын

    Can you please do a video on kinematics graph questions for as levels

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    @Ray_13374 жыл бұрын

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    @khairi7508

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @andrewthresh913 жыл бұрын

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    @ScienceShorts

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂

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    @EnricoMicheli-jo6bg3 жыл бұрын

    Without u I’d fail my a levels

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    @sivarishi96394 жыл бұрын

    Teach slowly , informative video

  • @adityamisra8869
    @adityamisra88695 жыл бұрын

    Hi Sir, please skip to 13:33 I think you had some editing issues. But dont take video down as I got my exam in 2 weeks. after that then feel free.

  • @JamesWilson-ui1wg

    @JamesWilson-ui1wg

    5 жыл бұрын

    Aditya Misra Obviously he has made a mistake on his initial audio and has corrected it with a voice over instead of redoing that section. It does sound a bit weird but it gets the point across fine. 👍🏼

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    @khairi75083 жыл бұрын

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    @hasanhalim77726 жыл бұрын

    Re upload ?

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    @kys90096 жыл бұрын

    Mr j day?

  • @adolfTitlerr
    @adolfTitlerr3 жыл бұрын

    We don't have capacitance in GCSE But we do have it in A2

  • @inzayn1d

    @inzayn1d

    2 жыл бұрын

    edexcel IAL?

  • @Brandooooo5
    @Brandooooo52 жыл бұрын

    13:33

  • @tiggyteccas4825
    @tiggyteccas48256 ай бұрын

    13:33 Greater than XD

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    6 ай бұрын

    👀

  • @jameshall3683
    @jameshall36835 жыл бұрын

    Im so fucked

  • @boazekunyan3844
    @boazekunyan38442 жыл бұрын

    Decent

  • @mistyice
    @mistyice Жыл бұрын

    if i draw this 3d proceed to draw a 3d image

  • @ayoutubechannelname
    @ayoutubechannelname5 жыл бұрын

    6:56 to 7:27 Nope. The slower a capacitor is charged, the less energy is wasted. The one half factor is in there because each additional charge increases the amount of work needed to add subsequent charge, for an average work per charge of V_f/2 (assuming linearity). Meanwhile, energy loss can be modeled as a function of ESR or Equivalent Series Resistance, which is not at all directly related to the Capacitance. By charging the capacitor slowly, you keep the voltage drop IR due to resistance R low relative to the voltage of the capacitor, allowing most of the energy to be stored in the capacitor rather than wasted in the resistance.

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol.

  • @ayoutubechannelname

    @ayoutubechannelname

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you apply *constant* voltage V to a capacitor C with equivalent series resistance R, then half of the energy gets dissipated in the resistance and the other half of the energy gets stored in the capacitance. Why: For a *constant* voltage, you can represent the total input energy as simply the product of voltage V and charge Q, which on an x-y chart looks like a rectangle, where the height of the rectangle is the applied voltage (V) and the width of the rectangle is maximum charge stored on the capacitor (Q=C*V). The voltage on a capacitor is typically proportional to Q (i.e. C is typically constant). So the energy stored in the capacitor increases simply with the square of the voltage, and this energy stored can be represented by the lower-right diagonal half of the rectangle with "area" (1/2)V*Q (where Q = C*V). The upper-left diagonal half of the rectangle represents the Joule heat loss incurred as the capacitor was being charged. So: If you apply a *non-constant* voltage in such a way that it is maintained only slightly above the voltage of the capacitor, up until the desired voltage is reached, then you can minimize the amount of energy you lose when charging the capacitor. In such a case, the area of representing the input energy would no longer be as simple as a rectangle with uniform height because the initial applied voltage would need to be lower than the final applied voltage. This cuts away from the "upper-left diagonal half of the rectangle" which "represents the Joule heat loss incurred as the capacitor was being charged".

  • @rafaellopes2053

    @rafaellopes2053

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ScienceShorts absolute legend

  • @samiulhaque8238
    @samiulhaque82383 жыл бұрын

    physics 4 in 17 days...

  • @eroskuikel9688
    @eroskuikel96886 жыл бұрын

    I don't think you can state "Charge stored". Only energy is stored .The net charge in a capacitor is zero.

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    6 жыл бұрын

    Splitting hairs. That's the same as saying it's wrong to say that a hydroelectric dam stores water.

  • @ianorr7568
    @ianorr75685 жыл бұрын

    Fundamental error in this video.....time constant is "RC" NOT 1/RC!!!!!

  • @Annie-xb8xx

    @Annie-xb8xx

    4 жыл бұрын

    isnt that what he said?

  • @Lydia-nb7yd
    @Lydia-nb7yd Жыл бұрын

    Sir a little bit confusing

  • @AnirudhMakhana
    @AnirudhMakhana5 жыл бұрын

    Edexcel peeps sitting for unit 4 tmr, where you @

  • @ashantikuvimba9575
    @ashantikuvimba95752 жыл бұрын

    Helpful but youre going to fast

  • @flyingdutchman109
    @flyingdutchman1096 жыл бұрын

    @5.00 I think you mean CHARGE stored per unit potential difference, not 'charged' XD

  • @ScienceShorts

    @ScienceShorts

    6 жыл бұрын

    :'(

  • @chinmayvashishtha

    @chinmayvashishtha

    5 жыл бұрын

    damn that's harsh checking

  • @riajenson5485
    @riajenson54852 жыл бұрын

    bro where would we all be without you? I started to get so demotivated because my teacher teaches solely through equations with no derivations or real explanations. It's been bugging me so much why half of the energy was just disregarded but now I get it. Thanks so much!

  • @shifatshelby9859

    @shifatshelby9859

    5 ай бұрын

    where are u now ? (just curious)