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Home > AP Courses and Exams > Course Home Pages > Capacitors Capacitors More About Electricity and Magnetism... Charge, Field, and Potential Coulomb's Law and Field and Potential of Point Charges Fields and Potentials of Other Charge Distributions Gauss's Law and Electrostatics with Conductors Dielectrics Current, Resistance, Power Steady-State Direct Current Circuits Capacitors in Circuits Forces on Moving Charges in Magnetic Fields Forces on Current-Carrying Wires in Magnetic Fields Wire Fields; Biot-Savart and Ampere's Law Electromagnetic Induction Inductance and Maxwell's Equations Demonstration Sample Capacitors This demonstration includes a picture, description, suggestion of use, equipment needed, and the approximate setup time.   Sample Capacitors Lecture Notes and Tutorials Notes from PhysicsLAB by Catherine H. Colwell These notes contain detailed explanations of background material, annotated diagrams and illustrations, and solved examples.   Parallel Plates   Properties of Parallel-Plate Capacitors Capacitors and Dielectrics These notes from Frank Wolfs at the University of Rochester contain calculus-level, detailed explanations of background material, annotated diagrams and illustrations, and solved examples.   Capacitors and Dielectrics Explorations Factors Affecting Capacitance This site from Florida State University explores how varying certain parameters affects the capacitance of a capacitor with an excellent interactive simulation.   Factors Affecting Capacitance Charging and Discharging a Capacitor This site from Florida State University explains how a capacitor is charged and discharged with current from the battery with an excellent interactive simulation.   Charging And Discharging A Capacitor An Introduction to Capacitance This site from Florida State University includes history of capacitors, description, charging, discharging, dielectrics, and capacitors in series and parallel with excellent interactive simulations.   An Introduction to Capacitance See also... AP Physics Web Guide AP Physics B Course Home Page AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism Course Home Page AP Physics C: Mechanics Course Home Page Teachers' Resources

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