Capacitors and Dielectrics

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Understand and differentiate conductors and insulators.

Explore how charge is stored in an object.

Discuss, examine and explore as to why some elements, alloys or compounds conduct electricity more easily than other.

Explore the concept of capacitance of a capacitor and reflect on the types of capacitors.

Develop a theory to determine the energy stored in a capacitor and its applications in developing a computer chip.

Explore the working principle of the Van der Graaff generator, and its applications in producing large amount of static charge.

Understand the concept of dielectrics and its importance in using them to increase or decrease the capacitance.

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This topic covers under Chemistry subject as a part of the Electricity and Magnetism topic

and this topic contains following sub topics

Capacitors and Dielectrics

Capacitors

Parallel plate capacitor

Energy stored in a capacitor

Van de Graaff generator

Dielectric types