Re: Impedance, Mechanical, Electrical

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>

A capacitor stores energy. Charge and energy are
different. I can "charge" a balloon by rubbing it with
something like wool. It then has a net charge. A
capacitor has no net charge.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: <davep@xxxxxxxx>
>
>
>  > I think it's fantastic that you are trying to put
>  > complex concepts into laymans terms. I'd like to
>  > suggest one "tweak". I've always thought that to
>  > describe a capacitor as "storing charge" didn't
> make
>  > sense. It stores energy, not charge. Energy and
> charge
>  > are different.
>     Analogies can be powerful, can also be
> confusing.
>
>  > Of course, that may confuse them even more, since
>  > we're all taught by "expert" books and professors
> that
>  > a cap stores "charge".
>     What, then, does  a cap store?
>
>      best
>        dwp
>
>
>




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