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Capacitor(BLock DC Pass AC Filtering,etc)

*Ewan Georg von Kleist-invented the first capacitor


- a glassjar
*Pieter Van Musschenbroek-similar capacitor
-Leyden Jar

[1jar=1uF]

*Benjamin Franklin-Investigated the Leyden Jar, The Charge is in the glass


- 1752,"Kite Experiment"

Types of Capacitor
*mica capacitor
-dielectric is mica
-10pF to 50pF

*Plate capacitors
-dielectric is patper
-0.001uF to 0.01uf
*Plastic Capacitors
-Like Myla
-500pF to 10uF
*Ceramic Capacitor
-dielectric is ceramic
-2pF to 500pF
*Electroclytic Capacitor
-example is tantalum
- dieletric is electrolytes
- 5hF to 5000uF

Inductors(Produce Induced Voltage,etc)


*William Stanley F.
-built the first induction coil
*Oliver Heaviside
-coined the term inductance
-it is a coil of wire
-it has internal resistance and internal capacitance

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