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Capacitors (23:42)
Review for AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

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AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism review of Capacitors including: demonstrating what capacitors are, defining capacitance, discharging a capacitor, deriving the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor, defining dielectrics, defining electric permittivity, defining the dielectric constant, deriving three equations for the electric potential energy stored in a capacitor, and calculating the energy released when discharging a capacitor.

Content Times:
0:00 Introduction to Capacitors
0:52 Capacitance
3:59 Demo: Discharging a Capacitor
6:34 Parallel Plate Capacitor
8:35 Dielectrics
10:26 Dielectric Constant
14:35 Energy Stored in a Capacitor
18:43 A Few Loose Ends
20:47 Calculations for Our Demo
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