AC1 Fundamentals Unit 6 – Capacitance
NEW TERMS AND WORDS
capacitance (C) - the property of a capacitor to store charge.
capacitor - a device consisting of two conducting surfaces separated by an insulating material
and possessing a predicted amount of capacitance.
farad (F) - unit of measure for capacitance. A farad equals one coulomb of charge stored at a
potential of one volt.
leakage current - a small, undesirable amount of current that flows through the dielectric of a
capacitor.
dielectric - the insulating material between the two plates of a capacitor.
EQUIPMENT REQUIRED
F.A.C.E.T. base unit
AC 1 FUNDAMENTALS circuit board
Multimeter
Oscilloscope, dual trace
Generator, sine wave