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Basic Electrical Engineering
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Basic Electrical Engineering

by SK Sahdev
April 2015
Beginner
768 pages
23h 29m
English
Pearson Education India
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3

ELECTROSTATICS AND CAPACITORS

LEARNING OBJETIVES

After the completion of this chapter, the students or readers will be able to understand:

  • What is electrostatics and how Coulomb’s laws related to it?
  • How terms such as, electric field, electric density, electric intensity at a point, potential, and potential difference are related to electrostatics?
  • What is Gauss theorem of electrostatics?
  • How to determine electric potential at a point due to charged sphere?
  • What is potential gradient and breakdown potential?
  • What is a capacitor and how it is charged and discharged?
  • What are various types of capacitors?
  • What is the necessity of grouping of capacitors?
  • How electric energy is stored in a capacitor?
3.1  INTRODUCTION

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