Engineering Circuit Analysis: International Student Version, Tenth Edition

Chapter 6. CAPACITANCE AND INDUCTANCE

THE LEARNING GOALS FOR THIS CHAPTER ARE:

• Know how to use circuit models for inductors and capacitors to calculate voltage, current, and power

• Be able to calculate stored energy for capacitors and inductors

• Understand the concepts of continuity of current for an inductor and continuity of voltage for a capacitor

• Be able to calculate voltages and currents for capacitors and inductors in electric circuits with dc sources

• Know how to combine capacitors and inductors in series and parallel

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