Saturday, March 10, 2012
Capacitors, Resistors, & Voltage
The first thing we learned about in this class is about electric potential and electric potential energy. Electric potential energy is stored energy of an object in an electric potential field. Electric potential is the amount of electric potential energy divided by charge. Another thing we learned about is voltage, voltage is the electric potential difference between two points. the last thing we learned about is capacitor. Capacitors are used to store energy, it sores lots of voltage but not a lot of charge. An example of this is the big green boxes you see around campus that says high voltage on them. In class we used something that created huge amounts of voltage but not a lot of charge.
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