suffered with this for years. skipped chapters out of fright. avoided discussions out of shame. and finally finally i saw this video..thank u sir :')

Before I watched this video I knew nothing about capacitors. You made a very coherent diagram and you explained it very well! Thumbs up!!

I wish I'd had this tutorial when I was managing a Radio Shack store beginning in 1974. The company trained us to sell but not understand what we were selling. Radio Shack's theory was that if we became too knowledgable, we'd talk ourselves out of a sale. What the fuck did that mean? I had walls full of transistors, capacitors, resistors..the entire electronic display of goodies yet, it was up to my own devices to understand just what the hell each did. I had to depend upon a few of the electronic geniuses who shopped my store who were generous enough to educate me in order that I be capable of more than simply pointing to the area where parts were inventoried. At the end of my first year, it dawned upon me that corporate America wanted nothing more than dolts running its facilities...and Radio Shack was but my first experience with managed ignorance. In 1979, I was hired by Procter and Gamble as a pharmaceutical rep and it was the same old shit all over again...just reguritate the pitch and don't worry the fact that while talking to doctors all day long you didn't know jack shit about the product. No wonder I did so much coke...after all, it did save me from acknowledging the fact that I was a fucking corporate fool.

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Great approach and fantastic analogies. I have watched several tutorials and this one (by far) really hit home. Thank you

The curved plate indicates that the capacitor is of an electrolytic design. The implication of that is that if you hook it up backwards it will probably explode. For this reason you never subject it to alternating currents. The most common is as DC filters in power supplies to remove ripple after rectification. This is a fantastic series. I see that he is bringing calculus into the instruction in Lesson 9. Once you get into RLC circuits then you will need differential equations. Oh how I love Eulers. Many people don't understand why they had to take algebra in high school. Algebra is just a stepping stone to calculus. Calculus is where all the magic happens. The power of calculus is absolutely incredible.

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Many thanks for this video. Worth the fifteen minutes, as I now understand the basics of a capacitor.

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2:32 This is true for most low power electronic circuits, where you'll mostly be using medium to very small capacitances for voltage smoothing; evening of potential for reliable power and performance. But I would like to expand on this. There are actually decently sized supercapacitors which can have capacitances of hundreds to thousands of farads! Some people even make cells of capacitors to deliver power instead of common batteries. They have some different properties such as very low internal resistance, so it can deliver a LOT of power really fast.

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Yup...This works for me! Thank you so much. Aside from all the initial blurb the crux of it starts at 12:54. Cheers and more

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This is a very nice video, that was how I saw capacitors working until another video confused me up with electrons with AC and DC

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changed capacitors on my TV because 3 capacitors were blown up. Never understood what capacitors were good for untill now. Thank you for a good lesson!

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I have struggled understanding how current “flows” through a capacitor, and how it charges. Thank you for the clear explanation. I can also see how formulas governing capacitors and their size come into play regarding electric field, surface area, dielectric value etc... It helps me visualize the whole thing. Thank you for the details.

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this tutorial indeed explained the working of capacitors...

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This was very useful, even if only like a minute of the video was necessary for me. I'm very much the kind of learner that gets stuck if I feel like I don't know what's going on. Most descriptions I've found of capacitors don't really clarify what's going on, so it just becomes meaningless numbers and magic to me.

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Awesome video thnx very much but can you explain how do the capacitor deals with AC and DC ???

I've never liked this "positive" electron flow concept. This is very counter-intuitive. Why not just say that the flow of electrons from the negative battery terminal (actually just a transfer of electrons from atom to atom) builds up on the negative side of the capacitor and induces a corresponding positive charge on the opposite plate causing the illusion of electrons flowing "through" the capacitor? IOW, just the reverse of what he was saying. Anyone care to chime in?

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thanks it helped me and from recent discovery electrons can pass through fields right ? can it

I like it when he's happy with my questions.

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So freakin cool. Damn I wish I had learned this when I was younger. Trying to catch up is harder.

I am not even studying for a engineer and this has helped me!

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Good lecture. I do have a problem with positive electrons piling up on the plus side of the capacitor though. I was taught that negative electrons pile up on the negative side and repel the negative electrons away from the positive side making the plus side more positive.

So if I'm connecting a cap to a transistor base the cap should be positive for audio input and negative would connect to the base of that transistor for audio output source correct? Or I could say it like this the audio signal goes into the plus side of the cap and drains out of the negative side of the cap into the transistor base. Basically I want the signal to be continuously going forward and never coming back into the incoming signal. This is what I want to accomplish. Will you be willing to answer this question thank you. 🤗💖

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Are the +ve charges on the right plate repelled by the electric field or by the +ve charges on the left plate???

+mathtutordvd if i had two capacitors that were 2200 volts and 1.0 uf what would the output in volts and the output in joules and coulombs be? I really need to know plz respond asap!!!!!!!!!

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