Webquest:
Capacitors
Answer these questions on your own paper.
- What is a capacitor?
- Describe an example of a natural
capacitor.
- What are capacitors used
for?
- What is a dielectric?
- What is capacitance?
- What is the unit
of capacitance? How is
it defined?
- What determines
the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor? Identify the
three factors that determine the capacitance of a parallel plate
capacitor, and describe how each one affects capacitance.
- What happens to the charge
on a capacitor when the capacitor
is discharged?
- How are capacitors used in condenser
microphones?
- How are capacitors used in radio
receivers?
- Read pp. 602-607 in your
textbook. Do the problems on p. 607 (Practice B).
Made 15 February 2007
by Lori Andersen.