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📖 What You'll Learn
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- Capacitor operation and stored charge
- Plate area, spacing, dielectric and voltage rating
- Fixed, electrolytic, tantalum, film and variable capacitors
- Charging, discharging and the RC time constant
- Capacitors in series and parallel
- AC behaviour and capacitive reactance
- Capacitor testing and safe discharge