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Capacitive Impedance

Kirchoff's voltage law for a voltage source and capacitor is

Or

Solving this equation gives

For DC circuits and hence . The capacitor acts like an open circuit (infinite resistance) in a DC circuit.



Doug Gingrich
Tue Jul 13 16:55:15 EDT 1999