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Capacitors and d.c. Transients
OBJECTIVES
In this chapter you will learn about:
- Capacitance and capacitor action
- Factors controlling capacitance
- Types of capacitors—fixed and variable
- Colour coding of capacitors
- Series and parallel connection of capacitors
- Time constant
- Capacitor charging and discharging
- d.c. transients
- Graphical derivation of transient behaviour
- Universal time constant
- Problems on the above
- Universal time constant chart for capacitors and resistors
- Using the above chart in solving problems
Ganged capacitors air
13.1 INTRODUCTION
The simplest definition of a capacitor (Figure 13.1) is: a capacitor is a device capable ...
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