Capacitor and frequency relationship

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Cretin

Joined Dec 13, 2012
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So, as the frequency increases the reactance of a capacitor decreases, and the vice-versa.

What does that mean exactly? I know that frequency represents how many times an event happens over time. So am i getting this right?

The reason that as the frequency increases the reactivity of a capacitor decreases is because a capacitor depends on time to charge up, and since there are so many events happening in such a short amount of time, the capacitor never really charges fully and thus only exhibits a small amount of reactance (in ohms)

Make sense? If not....please advise :)
 
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