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Activity: Charging capacitors

This activity focuses on the energy and charged stored on capacitors. You will derive the equation for energy stored on a parallel plate capacitor and practise calculating this, apply conservation of energy when moving plates, understand the origin of the exponential nature of capacitor charging and discharging and sketch graphs of V, I and Q against t for charging and discharging. Topics: charging n2kLevels:...

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