Here's what I know:
When a capacitor is place in parallel with a voltage source, electrons will get pushed onto one plate and removed from the other. This will cause one plate to have a charge of +Q and the other to have a charge of -Q.
Here's what I don't understand:
I keep reading that electrons will continue to flow until the voltage across the capacitor is equal to the voltage across the voltage source. This doesn't make sense to me. Isn't the voltage across the two plates the same as the voltage source initially since they are connected in parallel?
I need some help understanding the relationship between the voltage across the plates and the voltage source and the flowing current and all that...
When a capacitor is place in parallel with a voltage source, electrons will get pushed onto one plate and removed from the other. This will cause one plate to have a charge of +Q and the other to have a charge of -Q.
Here's what I don't understand:
I keep reading that electrons will continue to flow until the voltage across the capacitor is equal to the voltage across the voltage source. This doesn't make sense to me. Isn't the voltage across the two plates the same as the voltage source initially since they are connected in parallel?
I need some help understanding the relationship between the voltage across the plates and the voltage source and the flowing current and all that...