Capacitors and capacitance

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Key terms and knowledge for AQA alevel capacitance topic.

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What is the capacitance?

How much charge will be stored on the capacitor per unit voltage applied across its terminals.

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Symbol for capacitance. Unit and unit symbol for capactiance.

C, Farad (F)

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How to find the energy stored in a capacitor from a graph.

Area under a V-Q graph (equal to work done??)

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What is a dielectric constant?

= permittivity of medium/permittivity of free space

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Why does the addition of polar molecules change the capacitance of a capacitor?

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