What is a Capacitor?
Capacitor is a passive component that has the ability to store the energy in the form potential difference between two plates. which form to be positive & negative depending upon the direction of charge storage . Symbol &Unit - The capacitor symbol is represented by drawing two parallel lines close to each other, but not touching. It consists of two terminals. Standard units for capacitor is Farads. The most common subunits of capacitance are micro farad, nano farad (nF), pico farad (pF) & femo farad(fF) etc. 1 micro farad = 10–⁶ farads 1 nano farad = 10–⁹ farads 1 pico farad = 10–¹² farads 1 femo farad = 10–¹⁵ farads Construction of capacitor - A capacitor has the ability to store electric energy in the form of electric field. A non conducting region is present between two plates which is called as dielectric material (Insulator such as aluminum, paper,air,& ceramic etc). When two plates having same are...