Sorting out Capacitors and Inductors

What do Capacitors store or hold?

A charge of electrons

Why is the capacitor constantly discharging and charging in an AC circuit?

Because the voltage goes positive and negative in each cycle

The rate of the charging and discharging acts as opposition to the changing AC voltage:

As a resistive effect called capacitive reactance

What are inductors?

coils of wires that make use of the properties of a magnetic field

The property specifically desired is:

The flow of current through the wire

With full current:

The magnetic field is at it’s maximum

If you take away the current, why doesn’t the field disappear right away?

Because it decays gradually, and the decay continues to push electrons in the path they were going

The rate of changing current flow and the resulting collapse and regeneration of the magnetic field in the coil as opposition to changing AC current:

A resistive effect called inductive reactance