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Capacitors
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Capacitors
Displacement current
Electrical equipment; Capacitors
A current which exists in addition to ordinary conduction current in ACcircuits. It is proportional to the rate of change of the electric field.
Disruptive discharge
Electronic components; Capacitors
The sudden and large increase in current through an insulation medium due to the complete failure of the medium under the electrostatic stress.
Dissipation factor
Electrical equipment; Capacitors
The tangent of the loss angle of the insulating material. A measure of the power factor (or losses) of a capacitor, given as D.F. = 6.28 fRC X 100%, where R is the equivalent series resistance (ESR) ...
Ceramic capacitor
Electrical equipment; Capacitors
Capacitors with a ceramic dielectric. One type of ceramic capacitor uses a hollow ceramic cylinder as both the form on which to construct the capacitor and as the dielectric material. The plates ...
Charge
Electrical equipment; Capacitors
The amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See Coulomb.
Conductance
Electrical equipment; Capacitors
The reciprocal of resistance. It is the ratio of current passing through a material to the potential difference at its ends.
Conductivity
Electrical equipment; Capacitors
Reciprocal of volume resistivity. Conductance of a unit cube of any material.
