Timeline for How can a capacitor store charge whilst also passing current?
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| Nov 16, 2021 at 14:14 | comment | added | Juan Perez | I mean, if you look at one of the plates, it stores extra charge, and so does the other... | |
| Jan 20, 2019 at 11:42 | comment | added | G-aura-V | What's the case with charged capacitor? Why doesn't the current flow through the capacitor eventually? | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 2:58 | comment | added | LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike | (+1) I wish I could upvote it +10! This is one of the most common misconception about capacitors! I've found that "charge storage" BS in all kinds of documents: from high school ones to scientific papers! I think most of the confusions stems on how electrostatics is usually taught: first explain how a metal body can hold charges, then introduce the capacitor, never explaining that in normal operation no one puts a charge just onto one plate! | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 13:33 | vote | accept | Phil Frost | ||
| Jan 21, 2014 at 1:31 | comment | added | Alfred Centauri | Spot on; charge is separated in a charged capacitor, i.e., electrons are 'pumped' from one plate to the other plate via the external circuit. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 23:10 | history | answered | Joe Hass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |