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Capacitors: What Are They?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners discover how capacitors help store data.  In this computer science activity, students investigate how capacitors can store an electronic charge, eventually helping computers store data.  Learners create their own capacitors with...
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What's a Capacitor?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students explain concepts of charge storage, how a capacitor works and how DRAM uses capacitors to store memory. They construct a capacitor and use a multimeter with capacitance meter capability to measure the stored charge in the...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Capacitor Simulation

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The camera flash works based on a simple circuit, but why does it require a capacitor? Scholars work through two levels of simulations related to circuits and capacitors. The pupils first use a simple circuit with a battery, resistor,...
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PHET

Capacitor Lab

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
The first capacitor was a Leyden jar, invented in 1745. Physics scholars explore capacitors in an engaging simulation. They may view one or set up circuits which contain two to three either in series or parallel. Other views include...
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Capacitors

For Students Higher Ed
In this physics instructional activity, students identify the parts and function of different types of capacitors. They solve and write short answers to 15 questions.
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Interactive
Physics LAB

Capacitors-Connected/Disconnected Batteries

For Students 9th - 12th
For this capacitors activity, learners answer 22 questions about parallel plate capacitors and parallel plate capacitors pulled apart. Students find the capacitance, the energy stored in the capacitors, the charge present on the plates...
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Combination of Capacitors

For Students 9th - 12th
In this capacitors worksheet, learners are given a diagram of a 40 V battery with 3 capacitors. They determine the voltage drop across each capacitor, the total capacitance of the battery, the charge on each capacitor and the total...
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Capacitors

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners explain the concepts of charge storage and how a capacitor works. They construct a capacitor and measure the stored charge using the appropriate equipment and measurements. They also demonstrate capacitance and how it can be...
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Resistor-Capacitor Circuits

For Students 10th - 11th
In this physics worksheet, students determine whether the current flows through the resistor after the switch is closed and explain why. Then they determine whether the capacitor will discharge faster or slower if there is an increase in...
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Switched Capacitor Circuitry

For Students Higher Ed
For this electronics worksheet, students complete 15 short answers and problem solving questions related to capacitance circuits.
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AC Filtering With Capacitors

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the properties of capacitors and discover that capacitors block DC and filter AC. They discover the function of capacitors. Students differentiate between AC and DC power. They explore the role of resistors.
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Interactive
Physics LAB

Kirchhoff's Laws: DC Circuits with Capacitors

For Students Higher Ed
In this circuits learning exercise, students calculate the charge on the capacitor based on the circuit drawing given. This learning exercise has 11 problems to solve.
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Time Constant Calculations

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this time constant worksheet, students answer 52 questions about the rate of current changes and voltage changes in capacitors. They analyze circuits and determine the time it takes for capacitors to change voltage and they specify...
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Time Constant Circuits

For Students 10th - 12th
In this time constant circuits worksheet, students answer 23 questions about the design of circuits that need time delays, about capacitors and inductors, and about resistors and the design of circuits.
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Interactive
PHET

Faraday's Law

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Could a flux capacitor really work? An engaging simulation encourages scholars to investigate Faraday's law. They experiment with various speeds, magnitude, voltage, and different-sized coils. Hopefully experimenters will be able to...
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Discovering Circuit Boards

For Students 7th - 12th
In this circuit board learning exercise, students research the 5 parts of a circuit board: transistors, resistors, capacitors, diodes, and inductors. This learning exercise has 5 short answer questions.
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PPT
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Energy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Wow! Colorful and simple, these 160 slides introduce the various forms of energy, along with a relevant image. Some of the images are animations, which help beginning physical scientists to visualize the flow of electrons or energy! This...
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PPT
Urbana School District

Electric Fields

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
What kind of pears do electricians eat? Amperes! Presentation begins with electric field vectors for various charge configurations and field strengths for both point charges and uniform fields. It continues with various surfaces,...
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Coulomb's Law and Induced Polarization

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Engage your aspiring physicists in a series of lab activities directied at demonstrating the behavior of electric force. In completing these exercises, learners will explore Coulomb's and Gauss's Laws. Well-written directions to four...
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Assessment
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Fall 2003 Midterm Exam #1

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Electricity is the focus of this college-level midterm exam. It requres physics learners to answer multiple choice and short answer questions in addition to evaluating several diagrams and graphs. This is appropriate for most high school...
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Typical Conceptual Questions for Physics I - Waves, Electricity, and Magnetism

For Students 9th - 12th
This wave and electromagnetism assignment is so thorough, it could be used as a unit exam. The first section of it covers wave concepts. The next section addresses static electricity. There is a section that deals with electric circuits....
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Assessment
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Fall 2004 Midterm Exam #1, Parts A & B

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
First year physics learners show what they know about electric potential, circuits, power, current, and voltage on this midterm exam. It consists of a multiple choice section, some true or false questions, and two multi-step problems to...
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Capacitive Reactance

For Students Higher Ed
In this electronics worksheet, students solve and write short answers to 15 questions about capacitors. They interpret schematic diagrams and calculate values using Ohm's law.
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Circuits and Symbols

For Students 9th - 12th
In this circuits worksheet, students read how electricity flows through circuits and learn how to draw a circuit diagram. Students then complete 16 matching, 2 multiple choice, 14 fill in the blank, and 3 short answer questions.

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