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Capacitance flashcards
23 cards drawn from the 4 lessons of capacitance: 2 definitions, 16 recall prompts, 1 off-sheet equation and 4 spot-the-error cards. Grade yourself and the deck reschedules each card at staged intervals, from the next day out to three weeks.
Year 13 · Capacitance lessons · all 851 cards
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- CapacitanceDefine
- State the effect of a dielectric on capacitanceRecall
- State how to find the energy stored from a pd-charge graphRecall
- State the effect of doubling the pd on the energy storedRecall
- State what Q means for a charged capacitorRecall
- State the combined capacitance of capacitors in parallelRecall
- State the combined capacitance of capacitors in seriesRecall
- Explain why capacitors in series all carry the same chargeRecall
- State which capacitor in a series pair takes the larger pdRecall
- State the capacitance of an isolated spherical conductorRecall
- Capacitors and the dielectricSpot the error
- Energy stored and capacitor combinationsSpot the error
- State how to find current from a charge-time graphRecall
- State how to find charge from a current-time graphRecall
- State the initial current when a capacitor charges through a resistorRecall
- State the shape of the three discharge graphsRecall
- Charging and dischargingSpot the error
- Time constantDefine
- State the fraction of final charge reached one time constant after charging beginsRecall
- State the gradient of a ln V against t discharge graphRecall
- State the unit of the time constant RCRecall
- Halving time for a discharging capacitorEquation
- The time constant and exponential decaySpot the error
The lessons these cards come from
- Capacitors and the dielectric
- Energy stored and capacitor combinations
- Charging and discharging
- The time constant and exponential decay
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