Capacitance is directly proportional to the physical size of the plates as determined by the plate area.

Capacitance is inversely proportional to the distance between the plates.

Ceramic dielectrics provide very high dielectric constants.

Electrolytic capacitors offer much higher capacitance values than mica or ceramic capacitors, but their voltage ratings are typically lower.

The total series capacitance is always less than the smallest capacitance.

A capacitor is a passive electrical component that stores electrical ________ and has the property of capacitance.

In its simplest form, a capacitor is an electrical device constructed of two parallel conductive plates separated by an insulating material called the ___________.

A charged capacitor can act as a temporary ____________.

The amount of charge that a capacitor can store per unit of voltage across its plates is its capacitance, designated C.  That is, _____________ is a measure of a capacitor’s ability to store charge.

The __________ (F) is the basic unit of capacitance

A capacitor stores energy in an electric field that is established by the opposite charges stored on the two _________.     

The breakdown voltage of a capacitor is determined by the ___________ strength of the dielectric material used.

The measure of a material’s ability to establish an electric field is called the ___________ constant.

Two types of mica capacitors are stacked-foil and _______ -mica.

Common dielectric materials used in plastic-film capacitors include polycarbonate, propylene, polyester, polystyrene, polyporpylene, and ________.

__________ capacitors are polarized so that one plate is positive and the other negative.

Variable capacitors are used in a circuit when there is a need to adjust the capacitance value either manually or _____________.

Adjustable capacitors that normally have slotted screw-type adjustments are used for very fine adjustments in a circuit are called ____________.

The ____________ is a semiconductor device that exhibits a capacitance characteristic that is varied by changing the voltage across its terminals.

When capacitors are connected in series, the total capacitiance is less than the smallest capacitance value because the effective plate separation ____________.

The calculation of total series capacitance is analogous to the calculation of total resistance of __________ resistors.

The largest-value capacitor in a series connection will have the smallest ___________ across it.

When capacitors are connected in parallel, the total capacitance is the ________ of the individual capacitances because the effective plate area increases.

The calculation of total parallel capacitance is analogous to the calculation of total ________ resistance.

A capacitor will charge up when it is connected to a ________ voltage source.

As this charging process continues, the voltage across the plates builds up rapidly until it is equal to the __________ voltage.

When a conductor is connected across a charged capacitor, the capacitor will __________.

The RC time constant is a fixed timer interval that equals the product of the resistance and the ________________ in a series RC circuit.

A capacitor appears as an _________ to a constant voltage.

A capacitor appears as a _________ to an instantaneous change in voltage.

A capacitor charges and discharges following a nonlinear curve.  This type of curve follows a precise mathematical formula and is call an _____________ curve.

It takes _________ time constants to reach 99% (considered 100%) of the final voltage.

This five time-constant interval is generally accepted as the time to fully charge or discharge a capacitor and is called the __________ time.

A capacitor passes ac with and amount of oppositiion, called capacitive ___________, that depends on the frequency of the ac.

An ideal capacitor does not dissipate energy; it only stores energy ___________.

The product of instantaneous voltage, v, and instantaneous current, i , gives ______________ power.

The rate at which a capacitor stores or returns energy is called its ___________ power.

The unit of reactive power is ______ (volt-ampere reactive).

One of the most basic applications of a capacitor is as a __________ voltage source for low power circuits such as certain types of semiconductor memories in computers.

A capacitor provides voltage and current to a circuit as long as its __________ remains sufficient.

The smaller the current and the higher the capacitor, the longer the time a capacitor can provide ___________ to a circuit.

A basic dc power supply consists of a circuit know as a _________ followed by a filter.

Both half-wave and full-wave rectified voltages are dc because, even though they are changing, the do not alternate ________.

__________ capacitors are sued to bypass an ac voltage around a resistor in a circuit without affecting the dc voltage across the resistor.

When you tune your radio or TV, you are actually changing the ___________ in the tuner circuit (which is a type of filter) so that only the signal from the station or channel you want passes through to the receiver circuitry.

Dynamic computer memories use capacitors as the basic storage element for _______ information, which consists of two digits, 1 and 0.