Capacitor Capacitors are energy storage devices which have the ability to store an electrical charge across its plates. The simplest construction of a capacitor is by using two parallel conducting metal plates separated through a distance by an insulating material. The larger the area of the plates or the smaller their separation the more charge the capacitor can store. Capacitance is measured in Farads, which is a very large unit so micro-Farad (μF), nano-Farad (nF) and pico-Farad (pF) are generally used. Inductor In its most basic form, an Inductor is nothing more than a coil of wire wound around a central core. Forming a wire coil into an inductor results in a much stronger magnetic field than one that would […]