What is Capacitor?
Capacitor is also known as condenser . This is one of the passive components like resistor. Capacitor is generally used to store the charge. In capacitor the charge is stored in the form of “electrical field”. Capacitors play a major role in many electrical and electronic circuits. Generally, a capacitor has two parallel metal plates which are not connected to each other. The two plates in the capacitor are separated by non conducting medium (insulating medium) this medium is commonly known as Dielectric . [adsense1] There are different types and different shapes of capacitors available , from very small capacitors which are used in resonance circuits to large capacitors for stabilising HVDC lines. But all capacitors are doing the same work that is storing the electrical charge. The shape of a capacitor is rectangular, square, circular, cylindrical or spherical shape. Unlike a resistor, an ideal capacitor does not dissipate energy.As the diffe...