Exam 17: Capacitance

Any charge or discharge current flows through the conducting wires to the plates but not through the ______________.

The action of neutralizing the charge by connecting a conducting path across the dielectric is called charging the capacitor.

A good capacitor has

A capacitor consists of a conductor between two insulators.

Surface-mount capacitors are often called

When one coulomb is stored in the dielectric with a potential difference of one volt, the capacitance is

The capacitance of a capacitor is determined only by its physical construction and not by external circuit parameters such as frequency or voltage.

What type capacitor is most often used for coupling and bypassing ac signals?

The capacitor has opposite charges because of electrostatic induction by the electric field.