Capacitors
If you missed today:
1. Objects that love to be positive easily, negative easily, and either.
Can you find rabbit fur, rubber rods, glass rods, and saran wrap in the list above?????
3. Periodic Chart - To explain valance electrons/capacitors and insulators
So one reason why some elements are great conductors is that they only have one electron in there outer orbit and the further away that orbit is the weaker that electron is held and (vice-versa) if the outside orbital is full, the element makes a good insulator.
4. Students flashed a disposable camera after which the teacher collected them and pointed out the danger involved with them by discharging the capacitor in the disposable camera.
5. How to make a capacitor video.
Places I appreciate capacitors:
1. The workout Elliptical machine I use in the fitness center at SPASH is not plugged in and operates from changing your workout into electricity to run the digital computer. If you get off the machine for awhile, you do not lose your current workout data because of a capacitor.
2. When I replace the batteries in my programmable furnace gauges the capacitor holds the program so I do not need to reprogram the furnace to turn on/off throughout the day at different temperature settings.
3. The disposal cameras flash could not flash if a capacitor didn't discharge a lot of power at once to make it flash. You can hear the capacitor charging again after taking a picture.
4. The starter on your car uses a capacitor for a lot of electrical power all at once to turn the flywheel so you need not turn it by hand like the original cars did.
5. Computers have capacitors to change the ac to dc and keep the spikes of electrical power smooth. The capacitor is like a water tower keeping the electrical pressure constant and allowing more or less pressure to the electrical components.
6. Capacitors are why you count 13 seconds after shutting off a computer device so the capacitors discharge before turning the computer back on.
Capacitors are in almost every electrical device for one reason or another mentioned above.
1. The workout Elliptical machine I use in the fitness center at SPASH is not plugged in and operates from changing your workout into electricity to run the digital computer. If you get off the machine for awhile, you do not lose your current workout data because of a capacitor.
2. When I replace the batteries in my programmable furnace gauges the capacitor holds the program so I do not need to reprogram the furnace to turn on/off throughout the day at different temperature settings.
3. The disposal cameras flash could not flash if a capacitor didn't discharge a lot of power at once to make it flash. You can hear the capacitor charging again after taking a picture.
4. The starter on your car uses a capacitor for a lot of electrical power all at once to turn the flywheel so you need not turn it by hand like the original cars did.
5. Computers have capacitors to change the ac to dc and keep the spikes of electrical power smooth. The capacitor is like a water tower keeping the electrical pressure constant and allowing more or less pressure to the electrical components.
6. Capacitors are why you count 13 seconds after shutting off a computer device so the capacitors discharge before turning the computer back on.
Capacitors are in almost every electrical device for one reason or another mentioned above.
6. Demos showing charge resides on the outside of objects.
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