Capacitors

Capacitors

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Capacitors

charge

Electrical equipment; Capacitors

The amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See Coulomb.

conductance

Electrical equipment; Capacitors

The reciprocal of resistance. It is the ratio of current passing through a material to the potential difference at its ends.

conductivity

Electrical equipment; Capacitors

Reciprocal of volume resistivity. Conductance of a unit cube of any material.

conductor

Electrical equipment; Capacitors

An electrical path which offers comparatively little resistance. A wire or combination of wires not insulated from one another, suitable for carrying a single electric current.

corona

Electrical equipment; Capacitors

A luminous discharge due to ionization of the gas surrounding a conductor around which exists a voltage gradient exceeding a certain critical value. A type of discharge--sometimes visible--in the ...

corona resistance

Electrical equipment; Capacitors

The time that insulation will withstand a specified level field-intensified ionization that does not result in the immediate complete breakdown of the insulation.

A unit of electric charge. It is named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. 1 coulomb is the amount of electric charge transported by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second. It can also be defined in terms ...