The coil and capacitor both have the ability to store energy, but in opposite, and totally complimentary ways.
A capacitor stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field.
An inductor stores energy in the form of a magnetic field.
In an LC parallel resonant circuit, the energy "sloshes" back and forth between the L and the C, being transformed continuously between magnetic energy and electrostatic energy, until losses or transfer to the external world removes the energy.
When the voltage is at it's peak, the current is zero- this is when the energy is entirely electrostatic - inside the capacitor.
When the voltage is zero, the current is at it's peak, and the energy is entirely magnetic - inside the inductor.
Think of inductors and capacitors as being the perfect opposite compliments to each other, with perfectly inverse properties - everything a coil is, a capacitor is not- and vice versa- it's poetry.
A capacitor stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field.
An inductor stores energy in the form of a magnetic field.
In an LC parallel resonant circuit, the energy "sloshes" back and forth between the L and the C, being transformed continuously between magnetic energy and electrostatic energy, until losses or transfer to the external world removes the energy.
When the voltage is at it's peak, the current is zero- this is when the energy is entirely electrostatic - inside the capacitor.
When the voltage is zero, the current is at it's peak, and the energy is entirely magnetic - inside the inductor.
Think of inductors and capacitors as being the perfect opposite compliments to each other, with perfectly inverse properties - everything a coil is, a capacitor is not- and vice versa- it's poetry.