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    The two capacitor paradox or capacitor paradox is a paradox, or counterintuitive thought experiment, in electric circuit theory. The thought experiment...
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  • electromagnetic induction. Two capacitor paradox: an apparent violation of energy of an electric circuit composed of two ideal capacitors Aharonov–Bohm effect:...
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    based on a suggestion by George FitzGerald that a charged parallel-plate capacitor moving through the aether should orient itself perpendicular to the motion...
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    principle of conservation of charge. In 1748, he constructed a multiple plate capacitor, that he called an "electrical battery" (not a true battery like Volta's...
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    zero voltage drop across its terminals (a short circuit, an uncharged capacitor, a charged inductor, a virtual ground circuit, etc.) The current delivered...
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    actualism conventionalism Paradoxes Ehrenfest paradox Bell's spaceship paradox Velocity composition paradox Lighthouse paradox The invariance of Δs2 under...
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    Libyan terrorists from whom he stole the plutonium that powers the flux capacitor. Soon after his arrival in 1955, Marty's mother, Lorraine, falls in love...
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    charging energy. This is accomplished through the use of a large shunting capacitor. The result is energy level spacings that are approximately independent...
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  • Variable capacitor is a capacitor whose capacitance may be intentionally and repeatedly changed mechanically or electronically. Variable capacitors are often...
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    capacitor connected to a voltage supply initially causes a current as it accumulates charge; this current will however decay in time as the capacitor...
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    such as reaction vessels and vacuum furnaces. It is used in tantalum capacitors for electronic equipment such as computers. It is being investigated for...
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  • could answer the question posed by Enrico Fermi when he formulated his paradox: "Where are they?". Without the discovery of artificial sources, however...
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    and the Aharonov–Bohm effect. Application of these rings used as light capacitors or buffers includes photonic computing and communications technology....
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  • circuit, and consists of an inductor, represented by the letter L, and a capacitor, represented by the letter C. When connected together, an electric current...
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  • are used on, and must be resonated artificially, usually by attaching a capacitor across their feedpoint. Composite antennas Composite antennas are made...
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    potential Moving magnet and conductor problem Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory Paradox of a charge in a gravitational field Kargon, Robert; Achinstein, Peter...
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  • result of the Trouton–Noble experiment, in which a charged parallel-plate capacitor moving through the aether should orient itself perpendicular to the motion...
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    Crosstalk – Signals in one channel affecting another Faraday paradox – Apparent paradox with Faraday's law of induction Fleming's right-hand rule – Mnemonic...
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    especially by his treatment of Brownian motion, his resolution of the paradox of specific heats, and his connection of fluctuations and dissipation....
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    Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith at Bell Labs in 1969, based on MOS capacitor technology. The public was first introduced to the concepts that led to...
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    exponentially approach a limit in a manner similar to that in which a capacitor charges or discharges (exponential decay) through a resistor. The increase...
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    renamed NEC Unified Solutions Philips Electronics Blackburn; vacuum tubes, capacitors, delay-lines, Laserdiscs, CDs Philips Domestic Appliances Hastings: Design...
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  • depending on the type, whereas DRAM generally uses one transistor and one capacitor per bit, which makes it able to store much more data for any given chip...
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    of resistors, capacitors, and inductors can then be unified by introducing imaginary, frequency-dependent resistances for the latter two and combining...
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  • similar effect: an incident photon generates a charge on a microscopic capacitor that can be detected. Other detectors such as Geiger counters use the...
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    Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch. They charged a leyden jar (a kind of capacitor), and measured the electrostatic force associated with the potential;...
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    (3.9 in) in size and manually checked to separate toxic batteries and capacitors, which contain poisonous metals. The remaining pieces are further shredded...
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    instantaneously and therefore faster than c, as in the EPR paradox. An example involves the quantum states of two particles that can be entangled. Until either of...
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    including Snell's law (by Willebrord Snellius), and the Leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented in Leiden by Pieter van Musschenbroek...
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  • chemical potentials separately for each compartment. For example, a capacitor is composed of two isolated conductors and is charged by applying a difference in...
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