It is helpful to start this topic by discussing capacitors, rather than the more abstract notion of capacitance .

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Having established that there is charge on each capacitor plate, the next stage is to establish the relationship between...

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The derivation of formulae for capacitors in series and parallel will help to reinforce your students’ understanding of...

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So far, we have not considered the question of energy stored by a charged capacitor. Take care; students need to distinguish...

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Students will have already seen that the discharge is not a steady process in episode 125, but it is useful to have graphical...

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There are many examples of exponential changes, both in physics and elsewhere. Your specification may require that you make a...

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Depending on the ability and experience of your students you may need to spend time reviewing their previous knowledge and...

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Here, you are trying to illustrate the idea of electric charge and its relationship to a flow of current.

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There are two main aims for this episode: to present a range of examples involving different types of charge carrier, and to...

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In this episode, you can show that charge carriers in good conductors usually move very slowly.

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It is worth discussing energy transfer in electric circuits and linking this by analogy to other more familiar examples.

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Students may need to be reminded of the idea that power is the rate of doing work (or the rate at which energy is transferred)...

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