MAKE presents: The Capacitor

Simple yet effective, they come in a dizzying array of forms and materials. Vital to so many circuits for storage, timing, and filtration - the mighty capacitor!


audio and video by Collin Cunningham
makezine.com

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Tom Platt]

never actually explained how a capacitor works...

[Nikos Gewrgiou]

mr anderson...

[Marin P]

You see the strip at 1:58?

It stores eletric conduction on thoes strips, they are charged, and because they have large areas, and they are usually filld whit some electrolit they can store eletricity by a high resistance to esceping electrons.

[E Martin]

i cant help stairing at his head for all his videos

[Andrew Rodgers]

I recognize the Cassette player... Thank goodness for history books

[Abhishek Kumar]

Beautiful.............

[Jarno Lehtinen]

yyyyyyy

[vibe3d]

I can just imagine at Radioshack:

Buyer: Hello, can I buy 5 cylindrical towers of power?

Shop owner: ?

[Mary E. Merritt]

Thanks for sharing this. cool

[salyer2015]

Yea he did, it is just having metal store electricity, just as you can test and see with many different object. A good example would be to rub a balloon on your hair, this adds static electricity to the balloons surface. This is because you are rubbing electrons onto the surface of the balloon. This then is able to store the electrons and allow them to move, hence the static shock you get from a person rubbing their feet onto the floor and then touching another person, releasing a static shock.

[sexpotscot]

Now that's how I want my scientists to look!

[rkan665]

the guy asked whats the difference, i told him