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Resistors: Covered in This Tutorial

This document provides an overview of capacitors, including how they are made, how they work, common types and applications. It discusses how capacitors can store energy like a battery and are critical components used for local energy storage, voltage spike suppression and signal filtering. The document also outlines topics that will be covered such as the units of capacitance, recognizing different capacitors, and how capacitance combines in series and parallel circuits. Suggested preliminary reading on electricity, circuits and components is also provided.

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Resistors: Covered in This Tutorial

This document provides an overview of capacitors, including how they are made, how they work, common types and applications. It discusses how capacitors can store energy like a battery and are critical components used for local energy storage, voltage spike suppression and signal filtering. The document also outlines topics that will be covered such as the units of capacitance, recognizing different capacitors, and how capacitance combines in series and parallel circuits. Suggested preliminary reading on electricity, circuits and components is also provided.

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A capacitor is a two-terminal, electrical component.

Along with resistors and inductors, they


are one of the most fundamental passive components we use. You would have to look very
hard to find a circuit which didnt have a capacitor in it.

What makes capacitors special is their ability to store energy; theyre like a fully charged
electric battery. Caps, as we usually refer to them, have all sorts of critical applications in
circuits. Common applications include local energy storage, voltage spike suppression, and
complex signal filtering.

Covered in this Tutorial


In this tutorial, well be examining all sorts of capacitor-related topics, including:

How a capacitor is made

How a capacitor works

Units of capacitance

Types of capacitors

How to recognize capacitors

How capacitance combines in series and parallel

Common capacitor applications

Suggested Reading
Some of the concepts in this tutorial build on previous electronics knowledge. Before
jumping into this tutorial, consider reading (at least skimming) these first:

What is Electricity?

Voltage, Current, Resistance, and Ohms Law

What is a Circuit

Series vs. Parallel Circuits

How to Use A Multimeter

Metric Prefixes

Symbols and Units


Circuit Symbols
There are two common ways to draw a capacitor in a schematic. They always have two terminals, which go on to
connect to the rest of the circuit. The capacitors symbol consists of two parallel lines, which are either flat or
curved; both lines should be parallel to each other, close, but not touching (this is actually representative of how
the capacitor is made. Hard to describe, easier to just show:

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