Physics Review: E&M Capacitors and Capacitance #1 What Is A Capacitor

[@famlit.]

Welcome back. Weird without daily videos lol

[@ASACADEMY746]

Welcome back!

[@michaelduke1405]

The capacitor smooths out the 'signal' whatever it may be...

[@BillChapline]

In the real world can a capacitor eventually become weary of being repeatedly charged and discharged and finally become less effective or actually wear out? You don't talk about heat loss, so I conclude that any heat loss would be unnoticable.

[@Jibberish81]

Read about ESR (Equivalent Series Resistance). Real life capacitors have resistance from their leads, electrodes, and because no insulator is perfect; resistive losses through their dielectric. All of these result in watts loss that increase with temperature.