@spectracat Thanks for clarifying! That diagram was what threw me off and why I thought an electron actually physically moved from the positive plate to the negative one.
@phrak Yes it is confusing! haha, but yes I will just have to look at it as the net effect of charging a capacitor and not...
Alright that's what I thought Stonebridge. Thanks!
I've attached a picture of what my book said, which really confused me.
Is this example something completely different? It's talking charging a capacitor which is why I got confused.
@Phrak Your answer is what I thought happened until I read this in my book. Maybe I read this wrong, but from what it seems like, it sounds like electrons are actually moving across the capacitor.
"When charging a capacitor, to increase the charge on the capacitor, work is required to remove...
Thanks Stonebridge.
I do understand that the end result is the same, however I just wanted to be able to visualize it conceptually since I've read different things online and just wanted to see which one is right. Not that it's SUPER important, but it just bothers me if I can't understand it...
Okay here goes, I've read different things online about charging a capacitor so I just want to clear this up once and for all.
When you are charging a capacitor, I always understood it as the electrons shifting from the wire connected to the negative end of the battery onto the plate, and the...
So, I'm really confused on how a capacitor gets charged. I understand that electrons from the negative terminal of a battery flow to one side of the plate to make that side negative. However, I don't understand how the positive plate is formed.
From what I've been reading, it says that...
Okay here goes...
I'm having a hard time trying to logically understand how momentum is conserved for inelastic collisions, even though energy is lost. Since energy is lost (in the form of kinetic energy) how can the initial momentum be the same as final momentum. I know I may be confusing...