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Capacitor
A capacitor is an electrical device that stores energy and releases it latter, it is diferent from a battery in two key ways :
- It charges very quickly (on the order of seconds)
- It discharges very quickly (on the order of fractions of a second to a second)
The tradof to those two advantages is that its storage capacity is very small, for both its volume and its weight.
Working principle
A capcitor works by building up energy between two plates, seperated by an electrolite.
In modern capaciors, the two plates are actualy foils, wound up in a circular capsule, or stacked horizontaly in a ceramic binder.
Its elecrital symbols are the folowing :
