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RE: Impedance, Mechanical, Electrical
Original poster: "alfred erpel" <alfred@xxxxxxxxx>
What a great succinct summation. Your explanation makes it clear that
capacitors store a charge.
And to elaborate, 6.241... x 10^18 elementary charges = 1 coulomb. The
energy of a given amount of stored coulombs varys linearly with the voltage
it is stored with. E = .5 * Q * V
Al Erpel
[stuff snipped]
> A charged body works as a single plate of a capacitor.
> The exact amount of opposite charge is distributed in other
> objects around it.
> A capacitor stores equal amounts of opposite charges, separated.
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz