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Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential Difference
Equipotential Surfaces and the Electric Field
Capacitance
Dielectrics
Capacitors in Series and in Parallel
100
Electric potential energy difference per coulomb
What is electric potential difference?
100
A surface in which the potential is the same and is at a right angle to the electric field.
What are equipotential surfaces?
100
any arrangement of two metallic plates, they store charge and electric energy
What is a capacitor?
100
A non-conducting material that increases capacitance.
What is a dielectric?
100
When plates are wired in series, this is equal.
What is charge?
200
They gain energy by losing electric potential energy as they move to regions of higher electric potential.
What are Negative Charges?
200
Effectiveness of the capacitor storing charge.
What is capacitance?
200
The dielectric depends on this.
What is the type of material?
200
When plates are wired in parallel, this is equal.
What is voltage?
300
The distance between a pair of parallel plates, charged by a 12-V battery, with a 1200 N/C electric field between the plates.
What is .01 m?
300
The amount of volts a battery has when the charge is 0.003 C and its connected to a 200 microfarad capacitor.
What is 15 volts?
300
The effect of inserting a dielectric sheet into a capacitor.
What is increases capacitance?
300
Another name for "change in electrical potential energy per unit charge".
What is voltage drop?
400
The acceleration of a electron in a region where electric potential is constant.
What is no acceleration due to constant potential?
400
The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with a 0.500 mm plate separation and an area of 0.625 square meters. (answer in nanofarads)
What is 11.06 nF?
400
The capacitance of a 3.0 nF capacitor after adding the dielectric material of Teflon, which has a dielectric constant of 2.1. (answer in nF)
What is 1.43 nF?
400
The equivalent capacitance of two capacitors with capacitance 0.500 micro farads and 300 nano farads connected in series. (answer in mircofarads)
What is 0.188 micro farads?
500
By losing electric potential energy as they move o regions off higher electric potential.
How do negative charges gain kinetic energy?
500
The amount of energy stored in a capacitor with a 12 volt battery and a capacitance of 4.0 microfarads.
What is 2.88*10^-4 J?
500
The dielectric constant of a material that makes a 100 pF capacitor increase to 350 pF.
What is 0.29?
500
The equivalent capacitance of two capacitors with capacitance 0.900 microfarads and 0.600 microfarads. (answer in microfarads)
What is 1.50 microfarads?