Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx> Tesla list wrote:
A charged body works as a single plate of a capacitor. The exact amount of opposite charge is distributed in other objects around it.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.
A capacitor stores equal amounts of opposite charges, separated. Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz