Chapter 10 Capacitative Circuits
Every electrical circuit has some capacitance since it has conductors/metal pieces. In addition you can insert one or more capacitors with considerable capacitance in the circuit to control the rise and fall of current in the circuit.
When an uncharged capacitor is connected to a voltage source, electrons flow from the negative terminal of the voltage source to the one of the plates of the capacitor which repels electrons on the other plate causing a flow of electron from the other plate to the positive terminal of the voltage source. This has the effect of tamping down the rise of current in the circuit untill the capacitor is fully charged. After that current in the branch containing a capacitor stops and currents in other branches becomes steady. In this chapter we will study various effects we observe in a capacitative circuit.
